ヒラリー・マンテルを読む Reading Hilary Mantel : Haunted Decades

Arnold, Lucy

Bloomsbury Academic（2021/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350234499
• DDC分類 823.92

Full 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.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Not Giving up the Ghost: Preserving the spectral Mantel's Memoir
Chapter 2 Spectres of Margaret: Thatcherism, Care-giving and the Gothic in Every Day is Mother's Day (1985) and Vacant Possession (1986)
Chapter 3 Spooks and Holy Ghosts: Spectral Politics and the Politics of Spectrality in Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Chapter 4 The Princess and the Palimpsest: Skin, Screen and Spectre in Beyond Black
Chapter 5 'If the Dead Need Translators': Heresy, Haunting and Intertextuality in Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
Afterword
Bibliography