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050 4 a| PR6063.A438b| A76 2026;

082 04 a| 823.922| 23;

100 1 a| Arnold, Lucyc| (Lecturer in English literature),e| author.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjyHMRjwq4HcprrkfWjP8K;

245 10 a| Hilary Mantel /c| Lucy Arnold.;

264 1 a| Liverpool, [England] :b| Liverpool University Press,c| 2026.;

300 a| xii, 121 pages ;c| 23 cm.;

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490 1 a| Writers and their work;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-118) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction : '[T]he copyright in myself' : the life in the writing -- The alchemical method : Hilary Mantel's literatures of transformation -- Bring up the bodies : writing precarious embodiment -- Mistress of phantoms : fictions of haunting -- The living turn and chase the dead : history and fiction -- A "vocational" reader' : the novelist critic -- Coda : 'They are all beginnings'.;

520 a| "This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant authors of the contemporary period. Moving beyond the straightforwardly biographical, the study provides an account of Hilary Mantel's corpus which demonstrates the complex relationship that exists in the author's writing between history and fiction, source and story, and memory and making. Responding to the elliptical and self-reflexive nature of Mantel's body of work, the book rejects a chronological approach to the author's writing career in favour of tracing a series of thematic concerns that can be seen to structure her literary output across a diverse array of genres and forms: alchemy, the body, haunting, history, and the figure of the reader. Drawing on unpublished materials held in the Hilary Mantel Literary Papers at the Huntington Library, and woven through with illustrations of the ways in which a range of theoretical concepts can be seen to resonate within the author's work, Hilary Mantel offers a simultaneously accessible and rigorous account of a writer whose significance in, and influence upon, contemporary literary culture is yet to be fully acknowledged."c| Provided by publisher.;

600 10 a| Mantel, Hilary,d| 1952-2022x| Criticism and interpretation.1| https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHtJGQxmkGMbpFj4KmVC;

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Hilary Mantel / Lucy Arnold.

Author/creator	Arnold, Lucy author.
Format	Book
Publication	Liverpool, [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2026.
Description	xii, 121 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkHtJGQxmkGMbpFj4KmVC--Criticism and interpretation. Women authors, English--20th century. --Biography.

Series	Writers and their work Writers and their work.
Contents	Introduction : '[T]he copyright in myself' : the life in the writing -- The alchemical method : Hilary Mantel's literatures of transformation -- Bring up the bodies : writing precarious embodiment -- Mistress of phantoms : fictions of haunting -- The living turn and chase the dead : history and fiction -- A "vocational" reader' : the novelist critic -- Coda : 'They are all beginnings'.
Abstract	"This book is the first comprehensive critical introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant authors of the contemporary period. Moving beyond the straightforwardly biographical, the study provides an account of Hilary Mantel's corpus which demonstrates the complex relationship that exists in the author's writing between history and fiction, source and story, and memory and making. Responding to the elliptical and self-reflexive nature of Mantel's body of work, the book rejects a chronological approach to the author's writing career in favour of tracing a series of thematic concerns that can be seen to structure her literary output across a diverse array of genres and forms: alchemy, the body, haunting, history, and the figure of the reader. Drawing on unpublished materials held in the Hilary Mantel Literary Papers at the Huntington Library, and woven through with illustrations of the ways in which a range of theoretical concepts can be seen to resonate within the author's work, Hilary Mantel offers a simultaneously accessible and rigorous account of a writer whose significance in, and influence upon, contemporary literary culture is yet to be fully acknowledged." Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-118) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Arnold, Lucy (Lecturer in English literature). Hilary Mantel. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2026 9781805967095
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN	9781805967224
ISBN	9781805966814 (hardback
ISBN	1805966812 hardback
ISBN	1805967223 paperback
ISBN	electronic book (ePub)
ISBN	electronic book (PDF)

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