Hilary Mantel : contemporary critical perspectives /

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Imprint:London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
©2018
Description:xix, 163 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary critical perspectives
Contemporary critical perspectives series.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11691116
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Other authors / contributors:Pollard, Eileen, editor.
Carpenter, Ginette, editor.
ISBN:9781474296502
1474296505
9781474296526
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Series editors' preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Hilary Mantel: A Chronology
  • 'What Cannot Be Fixed, Measured, Confined The Mobile Texts of Hilary Mantel
  • 1. Mantel's Social Work Gothic: Trauma and State Care in Every Day Is Mother's Day and Vacant Possession
  • 2. History, Nation and Self: Wolf Hall and the Machinery of Memory
  • 3. Making History Otherwise: Learning to Talk and The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
  • 4. Reading Minds - Wolf Hall's Revision of the Poetics of Subjectivity
  • 5. Subjectivity in Process: Writing and the I in Giving Up the Ghost and Ink in the Blood
  • 6. Becoming Ghost: Spectral Realism in Hilary Mantel's Fiction
  • 7. Walking the Dead: Unruly (Re)Animation in A Place of Greater Safety
  • 8. Holy Ghost Writers: Spectrality, Intertextuality and Religion in
  • 9. 'I Am a Settlement, a Place of Safety, a Bombproof Shelter': Hauntings, Hospitality and Homeland Insecurity in Hilary Mantel's Beyond
  • 'Between the Real and the Imagined': Hilary Mantel's Craft
  • Further Reading
  • Index