Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination

by Avril Horner, S. Zlosnik

Daphne du Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du Maurier's Gothic fictions reflect both personal and broader cultural anxieties concerning sexual and social identity. Using the most recent work in Gothic and gender studies they enter the current debate on the nature of Female Gothic and raise questions about du Maurier's relationship to such a tradition.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

246 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 1997

Reviews

[Paris Chadwick · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this for school related personal interest and while I found it really interesting and very enlightening I need to absorb it in a different way. So might reread it.

[A. Macbeth reads · Rating 4 out of 5]

Authors : AVRIL HORNER and SUE ZLOSNIK
Call number. PR 6007 U47 Z67 1998
Excellent textbook ; really felt good to review all those novels of Daphne du Maurier’s and with ratcheted-up complexities of understanding. Starting from the premise that REBECCA was a classic Gothic early novel of du Maurier’s, the authors studied the rest of her oeuvre, tracking out a spider’s web of the use of Gothic tropes .
Have a lovely day, everyone! ✌️