Alison Light - Inside History
From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing
1st Edition
Published on 30. November 2021
244 pages
978-1-4744-8156-4 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work.
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Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Reading Oneself Backwards
- Part I From Fiction to Nation
- 1. 'Returning to Manderley': Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class
- 2. Fear of the Happy Ending: The Color Purple, Reading and Racism
- 3. Young Bess: Historical Novels and Growing Up
- 4. Outside History? Stevie Smith, Women Poets and the National Voice
- Part II Short Cuts
- 5. The Vampire and the Dog: Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest
- 6. Women Writers and Conservative Sensibilities
- 7. Against Empathy
- 8. The Mighty Mongrel: on Biography
- 9. Hitchcock's Rebecca: A Woman's Film?
- 10. Re-reading Great Expectations
- 11. The Figure of the Servant
- 12. Experiments in Memoir-writing
- Part III Writing Lives
- 13. A Woolf in Dog's Clothing: Flush
- 14. Fascism, Fear and Feminism: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas
- 15. Addicted to Diaries: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt
- 16. Writing the Lives of 'Common People': Refl ections on the Idea of Obscurity
- Index
