{"product_id":"alison-light-inside-history-from-popular-fiction-to-life-writing-9781474481724","title":"Alison Light - Inside History: From Popular Fiction to Life-Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlison Light - Inside History\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of popular culture and the question of pleasure; women's relation to ideas of national identity and other forms of belonging; and finally, their contribution to life-writing in its different genres. The volume offers a lively, wide-ranging way into feminist debates, touching on a number of major authors from Alice Walker to Virginia Woolf, on genre fiction, and on the writing of memoir and biography. Chronologically arranged, the essays and short 'think-pieces' chart Alison Light's own intellectual formation as a critic and writer within a wider collective politics. This is explored and contextualised in an autobiographical introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison Light is a writer and Honorary Professor in the Department of English, University College London; she is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University and a non-stipendiary Senior Research Fellow in English and History at Pembroke College Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eCommon People: The History of an English Family\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin 2014), which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize, and her most recent, \u003ci\u003eA Radical Romance\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2020 PEN Ackerley prize for memoir. She writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394440892690,"sku":"9781474481724","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0aaa7c63-2321-4e39-9f40-bc11a4d29853.jpg?v=1729006039","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alison-light-inside-history-from-popular-fiction-to-life-writing-9781474481724","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}