Reading Hilary MantelHaunted Decades

By Lucy Arnold

Book Overview

From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother's Dayto the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Halland 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 Mantelis a landmark study of this important and popular contemporary novelist.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350072559
• ISBN13: 9781350072558
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"