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.
| ISBN | 9781350234499 |
| Autor(a) | Arnold, Lucy |
| Editora | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Ano de edição | 2021 |
| Páginas | 240 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 23,40 X 15,60 |