Could not read full article due to paywall, but the claim that Mantel made a positive contribution to Historical Fiction is hard for me to agree with it. Her te

Could not read full article due to paywall, but the claim that Mantel made a positive contribution to Historical Fiction is hard for me to agree with it. Her text is sparse and abstract (that is it is absent the historical context, and concrete depictions of minutiae of the time period), lacking in poetry, her characters speak, think and act as they were living in our times, that I have a hard time considering it as historical fiction itself. What modern Historical Fiction aspires to the grandeur of the works of Walter Scott?