Hilary Mantel

Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Herausgeber: Pollard, Eileen; Carpenter, Ginette

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Critical Perspectives
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 241mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781474296502
• ISBN-10: 1474296505
• Artikelnr.: 51263541

Autorenporträt

Eileen Pollard is Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, UK. She is co-editor (with Berthold Schoene) of Accelerated Times: British Literature in Transition, 1980-2000. Ginette Carpenter is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Mark Lawson Series editors' preface Acknowledgments Contributors
Hilary Mantel: A chronology Introduction: 'What cannot be fixed, measured,
confined': The mobile texts of Hilary Mantel Eileen Pollard (University of
Chester, UK) and Ginette Carpenter (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
1. Mantel's Social Work Gothic: Trauma and State Care in Every Day is
Mother's Day and Vacant Possession Eleanor Byrne (Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK) 2. History, Nation and Self: Wolf Hall and the Machinery of
Memory Siobhan O'Connor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 3. Making
History Otherwise: Learning to Talk and The Assassination of Margaret
Thatcher Eileen Pollard (University of Chester, UK) 4. Reading Minds: Wolf
Hall's Revision of the Poetics of Subjectivity Renate Brosch (University of
Stuttgart, Germany) 5. Subjectivity in Process: Writing and the 'I' in
Giving Up the Ghost and Ink In The Blood Victoria Bennett (University of
Kent, UK) 6. Becoming Ghost: Spectral Realism in Hilary Mantel's Fiction
Wolfgang Funk (University of Mainz, Germany) 7. Walking the Dead: Unruly
(Re)Animation in A Place of Greater Safety Ginette Carpenter (Manchester
Metropolitan University, UK) 8. Holy Ghost Writers: Spectrality,
Intertextuality and Religion in Wolf Hall and Fludd Lucy Arnold (University
of Leeds, UK) 9. 'I am a settlement, a place of safety, a bombproof
shelter': Hauntings, Hospitality, and Homeland Insecurity in Hilary
Mantel's Beyond Black Kathryn Bird (Edge Hill University, UK) Interview
Further Reading Index