Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel

Eileen Pollard is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Chester, UK.

• Introduction. Understanding Ellipsis as a Burst Full Stop 1. ‘She is no writer of the Gothic’: Exploding the criticism as origin 2. Fludd: Exploding the gothic as origin 3. Beyond Black: Exploding the body as origin 4. Giving Up the Ghost: Exploding the autobiography as origin 5. Eight Months on Ghazzah Street and A Change of Climate: Tracing the silence in Mantel’s corpus 6. Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies: An Elliptical Reading 7. ‘There are no endings. They are all beginnings’: Giving up as gift Bibliography

‘Pollard’s deft and lively handling of Mantel’s fiction in conversation with the thinking of Jacques Derrida and Jean Luc Nancy is a significant contribution to Mantel scholarship, one which offers the discerning reader a wealth of insights into one of our foremost novelists.’ -- Dr Lucy Arnold, University of Leeds