Table of Contents
Foreword: Mark Lawson
Series editors' preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Hilary Mantel: A chronology
Introduction: 'What cannot be fixed, measured, confined': The mobile texts of Hilary Mantel
Eileen Pollard (University of Chester, UK) and Ginette Carpenter (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
1. Mantel's Social Work Gothic: Trauma and State Care in Every Day is Mother's Day and Vacant Possession
Eleanor Byrne (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
2. History, Nation and Self: Wolf Hall and the Machinery of Memory
Siobhan O'Connor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
3. Making History Otherwise: Learning to Talk and The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher Eileen Pollard (University of Chester, UK)
4. Reading Minds: Wolf Hall's Revision of the Poetics of Subjectivity
Renate Brosch (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
5. Subjectivity in Process: Writing and the 'I' in Giving Up the Ghost and Ink In The Blood
Victoria Bennett (University of Kent, UK)
6. Becoming Ghost: Spectral Realism in Hilary Mantel's Fiction
Wolfgang Funk (University of Mainz, Germany)
7. Walking the Dead: Unruly (Re)Animation in A Place of Greater Safety
Ginette Carpenter (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
8. Holy Ghost Writers: Spectrality, Intertextuality and Religion in Wolf Hall and Fludd
Lucy Arnold (University of Leeds, UK)
9. 'I am a settlement, a place of safety, a bombproof shelter': Hauntings, Hospitality, and Homeland Insecurity in Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black
Kathryn Bird (Edge Hill University, UK)
Interview
Further Reading
Index
