George du Maurier : illustrator, author, critic : beyond Svengali / edited by Simon Cooke and Paul Goldman.

"Though well-known as the author of Trilby and the creator of Svengali, the writer-artist George Du Maurier had many other accomplishments that are less familiar to modern audiences. This collection traces Du Maurier's role as a participant in the wider cultural life of his time, restoring him to hi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cooke, Simon (Simon Gareth) (Editor)
Goldman, Paul, 1950- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2016]
Subjects:
Du Maurier, George, > 1834-1896 > Criticism and interpretation.
Du Maurier, George, > 1834-1896.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and society.
Manners and customs.
Great Britain.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:xviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • George Du Maurier as a draughtsman and illustrator / Paul Goldman
  • "Splendacious" effects : George Du Maurier and early sensation fiction / Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
  • Illustrating the everyday : illustration and text in Gaskell's "Wives and daughters" / Alan Shelston
  • George Du Maurier's illustrations for Thomas Hardy's "The hand of Ethelberta" and "A Laodicean" / Philip V. Allingham
  • "The fountain of one's own originality" : Du Maurier's theories of illustration and how he applied them to his work / Simon Cooke
  • Peter Ibbetson and Du Maurier's "French voice" / Anne Hall
  • Du Maurier's Paris : Peter Ibbetson, Haussmann and industrial memory / Susan Zieger
  • Without memory or desire : the model's progress in Trilby / Jane Desmarais
  • Mesmeric celebrity, art, and authorship in Trilby / Hilary Grimes
  • Indestructible germs and perishable specks : the golden bridge between science and faith in The Martian / Genie Babb
  • A novel reflection : George Du Maurier as a social commentator / David Wootton
  • "My pretty woman" : the presentation of women in George Du Maurier's cartoons and novels / Leonée Ormond
  • Trilby's "kitchen" : the displaced domestic spaces of George Du Maurier and Henry James / Sara Thornton
  • Du Maurier and the "Oriental Israelite Hebrew Jew[s]" / Sarah Gracombe
  • Softening Svengali : film transformations of Trilby and cultural change / Louise McDonald
  • Appendix. Books and periodicals illustrated or co-illustrated by Du Maurier.