Reading Hilary Mantel
Subtitle: Haunted Decades
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781350072558
Subjects: Historical fiction, history and criticism; English fiction, history and criticism, 21st century; English fiction, women authors
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.