"The dead do not negotiate": Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, and Britain's obsession with history.
Why do we remember the dead with such intensity in Britain, as if they were still among us? I argue that Hilary Mantel makes a critical intervention in this debate with her historical fictions Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012) and The Mirror and the Light (2020). Her novels are theoretica...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 399 - 422 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2024
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