Hilary Mantel

Eileen Pollard is Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, UK. She is co-editor (with Berthold Schoene) of Accelerated Times: British Literature in Transition, 1980-2000.Ginette Carpenter is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

• Foreword: Mark LawsonSeries editors’ prefaceAcknowledgmentsContributorsHilary Mantel: A chronologyIntroduction: ‘What cannot be fixed, measured, confined’: The mobile texts of Hilary MantelEileen 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 MemorySiobhan 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 BloodVictoria Bennett (University of Kent, UK)6. Becoming Ghost: Spectral Realism in Hilary Mantel’s FictionWolfgang 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)InterviewFurther ReadingIndex