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

‘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

• 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