Hilary Mantel
eBook - PDF

Hilary Mantel

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Hilary Mantel

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

About this book

The first British writer to win the Booker Prize on two separate occasions - for Wolf Hall in 2009 and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies in 2012 - Hilary Mantel is one of the most popular and lauded novelists working today. Hilary Mantel: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is a critical guide to Mantel's work, from her earliest novels through to her recent Thomas Cromwell fictions, including analysis of her short story collections and memoir. Chapters cover such topics as Mantel's engagement with history to her deployment of the spectral and her extensive intertextuality. The book also includes a comprehensive interview with Mantel herself that explores her work and career.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Series editors’ preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Contributors
  11. Hilary Mantel: A Chronology
  12. ‘What Cannot Be Fixed, Measured, Confined’: The Mobile Texts of Hilary Mantel
  13. 1. Mantel’s Social Work Gothic: Trauma and State Care in Every Day Is Mother’s Day and Vacant Possession
  14. 2. History, Nation and Self: Wolf Hall and the Machinery of Memory
  15. 3. Making History Otherwise: Learning to Talk and The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
  16. 4. Reading Minds – Wolf Hall’s Revision of the Poetics of Subjectivity
  17. 5. Subjectivity in Process: Writing and the I in Giving Up the Ghost and Ink in the Blood
  18. 6. Becoming Ghost: Spectral Realism in Hilary Mantel’s Fiction
  19. 7. Walking the Dead: Unruly (Re)Animation in A Place of Greater Safety
  20. 8. Holy Ghost Writers: Spectrality, Intertextuality and Religion in Wolf Hall and Fludd
  21. 9. ‘I Am a Settlement, a Place of Safety, a Bombproof Shelter’: Hauntings, Hospitality and Homeland Insecurity in Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black
  22. ‘Between the Real and the Imagined’: Hilary Mantel’s Craft
  23. Further Reading
  24. Index