Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-262) and index.
Contents:
film transformations of Trilby and cultural change / Louise McDonald -- "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 / LeoneĢe 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 -- Books and periodicals illustrated or co-illustrated by Du Maurier. Books and periodicals illustrated or co-illustrated by Du Maurier.
Summary:
"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 his proper status as a major Victorian figure. Divided into sections, the volume considers Du Maurier as an artist, illustrator and novelist who helped to form some of the key ideas of his time. The contributors place his life and work in the context of his treatment of Judaism and Jewishness; his fascination with urbanization, Victorian science, technology and clairvoyance; his friendships and influences; and his impact on notions of consumerism and taste"-- Back cover.
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