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The book addresses critical omissions in du Maurier studies by carefully examining her less well-known shorter fiction. The analysis covers nine stories chosen to illustrate how du Maurier employs the diseased, disabled, and maimed human form as a recurrent symbol for social, political, and domestic misalignment.
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Section I: The Corpus
Introduction: Corporeality: The Conceptual Skeleton
Chapter One: 'The critics will never forgive you for writing Rebecca': Repositioning Daphne du Maurier and an Anatomy of the Short Story Collections
Section II: The Dismembered Self
Chapter Two: 'Split Second' [head] (1980)
Chapter Three: 'The Blue Lenses' [eyes] (1952)
Chapter Four: 'The Lordly Ones' [tongue] (1959)
Chapter Five: 'Monte Verità' [breasts/ yoni] (1952)
Chapter Six: 'The Apple Tree' [limbs] (1952)
Chapter Seven: 'The Alibi' [phallus] (1959)
Chapter Eight: 'The Little Photographer' [feet] (1952)
Chapter Nine: 'The Doll' [body] (1937, 2011)
Section III: A Pathology of Desire
Chapter Ten: Reconstructive Surgery
Appendix: The Bare Bones
Bibliography
About the Author
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Setara Pracha is senior research fellow and lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Buckingham.
Riassunto
The book addresses critical omissions in du Maurier studies by carefully examining her less well-known shorter fiction. The analysis covers nine stories chosen to illustrate how du Maurier employs the diseased, disabled, and maimed human form as a recurrent symbol for social, political, and domestic misalignment.
