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Lucy Arnold

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Senior Lecturer in English Literature (Contemporary)

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Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2026) Invested Objects: Found Childhood, Materiality and the Migrant Child in Valería Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Ali Smith’s Spring (2019). Children's Geographies. ISSN Print ISSN: 1473-3285 Online ISSN: 1473-3277 (In Press)
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2024) 'This is a place for the dead': Reading the Ghost Child in Jesmyn Ward's 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'. In: The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century. European Perspectives on the United States, 12 (Ch.14). Brill, Netherlands, pp. 268-286. ISBN eBook ISBN: 978-90-04-71073-3; Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-71072-6
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2024) “They buried him at Worcester”: Heritage sites, historical fiction and Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. Journal of Historical Fictions, 5 (1). pp. 1-26. ISSN 2514-2089
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2024) Nightmares about Fossils: Spectral Children, Colonial Legacies, and Intergenerational Trauma in the Work of Hilary Mantel. In: The Undead Child in Popular Culture: Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved. Routledge, London, pp. 93-113. ISBN eBook: 9781032657660
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2023) ‘Something like praying’: Syncretic Spirituality and Racial Justice in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing. In: Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN Paperback: 9781399510622 Hardback: 9781399510615 Ebook (app): 9781399510646 Ebook (PDF): 9781399510639
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2023) 'I'm the child that's been buried in leaves': Social Ghosting, Child Spectres and the Possibilities of Play in Ali Smith’s Spring (2019) and Companion Piece (2021). In: Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Ali Smith Symposium, Wednesday 26th April, University of Cambridge. (Unpublished)
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2022) Beaches of Bones: Non-Human Hauntings and Legacies of Animal Cruelty in Michelle Paver's 'Dark Matter'. Gothic Nature, 3. pp. 117-142. ISSN 2632-4628
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2021) Little Monsters: Austerity, Anxiety, and the Monstrous Child in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child. Contemporary Women's Writing. vpab038. ISSN Online 1754-1476
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2021) Nightmares about Fossils: Spectral Children and Intergenerational Trauma in the Work of Hilary Mantel. In: An Overflow of Meaning: Reading and Re-Reading Hilary Mantel, October 14-15th 2021, Online (Huntington Library). (Unpublished)
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2021) ‘Beaches of Bones: Non-Human Hauntings as Legacies of Animal Cruelty in Michelle Paver’s Dark Matter’. In: Haunted Shores: Coastlands, Coastal Waters and Littoral Gothic, March 22-26th 2021, Online. (Unpublished)
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2019) Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. ISBN Hardback: 9781350072558
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2019) Little Monsters: Anxiety, Austerity and the Monstrous Child in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child. In: Monsters: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project, 1st-2nd December 2019, Prague. (Unpublished)
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2019) Psychoanalysis. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 27 (1). pp. 63-81. ISSN Print: 1077-4254 Online: 1471-681X
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2018) Psychoanalysis. The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 26 (1). pp. 65-85. ISSN Print: 1077-4254 Online:1471-681X
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2018) Holy Ghost Writers: Spectrality, Intertextuality and Religion in 'Wolf Hall' and 'Fludd'. In: Hilary Mantel : Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Contemporary Critical Perspectives . Bloomsbury, London, pp. 117-132. ISBN 978-1-4742-9650-2
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2018) ‘The Heart Fails Without Warning’: Precarious Bodies in Hilary Mantel’s Short Fiction. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 18 (1). pp. 78-99. ISSN 1474-4600
Arnold, Lucy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3707-3409 (2016) Spooks and Holy Ghosts: Spectral Politics and the Politics of Spectrality in Hilary Mantel's 'Eight Months on Ghazzah Street'. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 57 (3). pp. 294-309. ISSN Print: 0011-1619 Online: 1939-9138

My Most Viewed As Author

#	Item title
1.	‘The Heart Fails Without Warning’: Precarious Bodies in Hilary Mantel’s Short Fiction	418	546
2.	Nightmares about Fossils: Spectral Children and Intergenerational Trauma in the Work of Hilary Mantel	271	92
3.	'I'm the child that's been buried in leaves': Social Ghosting, Child Spectres and the Possibilities of Play in Ali Smith’s Spring (2019) and Companion Piece (2021)	264	32
4.	Holy Ghost Writers: Spectrality, Intertextuality and Religion in 'Wolf Hall' and 'Fludd'	259
5.	Little Monsters: Anxiety, Austerity and the Monstrous Child in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child	257	249
6.	‘Beaches of Bones: Non-Human Hauntings as Legacies of Animal Cruelty in Michelle Paver’s Dark Matter’	226	62
7.	Spooks and Holy Ghosts: Spectral Politics and the Politics of Spectrality in Hilary Mantel's 'Eight Months on Ghazzah Street'	218	397
8.	Psychoanalysis	216
9.	Psychoanalysis	215	196
10.	Little Monsters: Austerity, Anxiety, and the Monstrous Child in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child	212	5
11.	Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades	207
12.	'This is a place for the dead': Reading the Ghost Child in Jesmyn Ward's 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'	199	201
13.	‘Something like praying’: Syncretic Spirituality and Racial Justice in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing	191	9
14.	“They buried him at Worcester”: Heritage sites, historical fiction and Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall	172	71
15.	Beaches of Bones: Non-Human Hauntings and Legacies of Animal Cruelty in Michelle Paver's 'Dark Matter'	151	156
16.	Nightmares about Fossils: Spectral Children, Colonial Legacies, and Intergenerational Trauma in the Work of Hilary Mantel	150	21
17.	Invested Objects: Found Childhood, Materiality and the Migrant Child in Valería Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Ali Smith’s Spring (2019)	6	1

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