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Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall(s) and the Circulation of Cultural Prestige

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Abstract

Hilary Mantel’s best-selling and prize-winning novels Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up The Bodies (2012) are exemplary texts in the recent development of high-culture historical fiction and in the centrality of adaptive processes to cultural production and consumption. They belong to a long-denigrated genre which is inherently adaptive, and which is currently shifting its cultural position from mass popularity towards cultural respectability. This process is central to the novels’ adaptation for stage and screen. In both adaptations, the transmission of cultural prestige between institutions and art forms is a central concern, as is revealed by authorial involvement, the broad cultural framing and institutional reception of the adaptations, and their use of formal techniques as indicators of prestige.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige
EditorsCollen Kennedy-Karpat, Eric Sandberg
Place of PublicationHoundmills
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Chapter4
Pages55-73
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-52854-0
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-52853-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2017

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture

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