Alison Light - Inside History

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[Alison Light - Inside History] enthusiastically and eloquently moves in many different directions. It is a work of fine writing as well as pioneering scholarship. Though an intensely personal writer, Light is always aware of her audience. She refuses to talk down to them and writes in a manner that is friendly, learned and accessible. She is one of the most human and humane writers of Modern British History at the moment and for that she richly deserves to have this collection of essays read widely by all those interested in British history, feminism and literature. -- Matthew C. Hendley, SUNY Oneonta * Gender & History * Alison Light writes with brilliance and wit. For her history is made up of memory and dreams, dreams are a common inheritance, every human life - however abject its conditions - has power.Light's essays dazzle and unsettle. * Sally Alexander, Goldsmith's College, London * It's to be hoped [...] that this collection is a way-marker in Light's writing career rather a valedictory. It serves as a reminder of how much has changed in literary studies and UK Higher Education more generally in the past thirty years, as well as charting the intellectual development of a scholar whose work has always sought to reach beyond the confines of the academy. -- Victoria Stewart * Women: a cultural review * It's to be hoped [...] that this collection is a way-marker in Light's writing career rather a valedictory. It serves as a reminder of how much has changed in literary studies and UK Higher Education more generally in the past thirty years, as well as charting the intellectual development of a scholar whose work has always sought to reach beyond the confines of the academy. -- Victoria Stewart * Women: a cultural review * Fascinating. . .?Alison Light - Inside History?is itself a feminist library awaiting Light's devoted readers as well as new feminists eager to understand how Light's past writings and her writings about the past, define the scope of literary and cultural studies. -- Kristin Bluemel, Monmouth University