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Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades

Autor Dr Lucy Arnold
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2021
From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother's Day to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the writings of Hilary Mantel are often haunted by supernatural figures. One of the first book-length studies of the writer's work, Reading Hilary Mantel explores the importance of ghosts in the full range of her fiction and non-fiction writing and their political, social and ethical resonances. Combining material from original interviews with the author herself with psychoanalytic, historicist and deconstructivist critical perspectives, Reading Hilary Mantel is a landmark study of this important and popular contemporary novelist.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350234499
ISBN-10: 1350234494
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Not Giving up the Ghost: Preserving the spectral Mantel's Memoir
Chapter 2 Spectres of Margaret: Thatcherism, Care-giving and the Gothic in Every Day is Mother's Day (1985) and Vacant Possession (1986)
Chapter 3 Spooks and Holy Ghosts: Spectral Politics and the Politics of Spectrality in Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Chapter 4 The Princess and the Palimpsest: Skin, Screen and Spectre in Beyond Black
Chapter 5 'If the Dead Need Translators': Heresy, Haunting and Intertextuality in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
Afterword
Bibliography

Recenzii

A thoughtful and illuminating study and one which is likely to be invaluable to anyone interested in [textuality and spectrality].
In this timely, comprehensive and smart study of Hilary Mantel's oeuvre, Arnold compellingly shows how Mantel's work is tied together by intricate situations of haunting in which ghosts of various kinds act as complex literary, political and ethical forces.
Arnold writes with striking acuity to offer innovative and exciting readings of Mantel's spectral tropes. This compellingly argued and exemplarily researched volume is certain to become a key critical work in the burgeoning field of Mantelian studies.
Reading Hilary Mantel is a meticulously researched, original, and beautifully written monograph. Lucy Arnold's sustained care and caution not to limit the potentiality of the ambiguities that lace Hilary Mantel's writing are perfectly supported by her sensitive and nuanced engagement with the thinking of pertinent critical theorists.