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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 fiction...
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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 |
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