Hilary Mantel
Subtitle: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781474296502
Subjects: English drama, history and criticism
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.