Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades

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.

• | Author: Lucy Arnold
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: June 17, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1350234494
• | ISBN-13: 9781350234499