Alison Light -- Inside history : from popular fiction to life-writing /
A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's workProvides a historicising collection of essays, by a major critic, exemplifying and opening up feminist cultural politics to new readersOffers a way into a variety of texts and genres - including popular fi...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Edice: | The feminist library
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3146962 |
Obsah:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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': Reflections on the Idea of Obscurity
- Index