Alchemical fictions

Sarah Elliott Novacich

doi:10.1057/pmed.2016.13

Alchemical fictions

Sarah Elliott Novacich

School of Arts and Science, English

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Abstract

This essay investigates the relationship between historical or quasi-historical figures and the literary characters they eventually become. It uses medieval understandings of character, temporality and textual afterlives as a way of approaching various transformations in Hilary Mantel's early novel, Fludd, and Colm Tóibín's more recent The Testament of Mary.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	214-224
Number of pages	11
Journal	Postmedieval
Volume	7
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2016.13
State	Published - Jun 1 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Cultural Studies
History
Philosophy
Literature and Literary Theory

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