Rediscovering Three Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier: “Terror,” “A Man of...
Three of Daphne du Maurier’s early stories, published in The Bystander (1928-1929) and in The Saturday Review (1931) but never anthologised or reprinted ever since, are discussed for the first time in...
View ArticleGothic Hauntings and Representations of Gender in Daphne du Maurier’s “The...
This contribution examines the instability of Daphne du Maurier’s gendered characterisation of the protagonists in the short story “The Apple Tree” (1952), and the resulting tensions that arise from...
View ArticleFiltering the Truth Through Gothic Lenses: The Undermining of Relationships...
This essay uses a literary Gothic lens to explore predatory and deceptive, dangerous relationships in Daphne du Maurier’s short stories. As Nina Auerbach comments of du Maurier’s work, “I have found...
View ArticleSimultaneous Immediacy in Two Stories by Daphne du Maurier: “The Birds” and...
This article examines Daphne du Maurier as a writer of popular-fiction genres, concentrating in particular on two stories from Kiss Me Again, Stranger (1953), the (enriched) American edition of her...
View ArticleMisreading the Body: Mutants and Masks in Three of Daphne du Maurier’s...
This article discusses three of Daphne du Maurier’s stories from her 1950s collections which offer scope for discussion of the peculiar iconography of the body in British post-war society. Firstly,...
View ArticleCorporeality in Daphne du Maurier’s Short Stories
This paper examines the shorter fiction of Daphne du Maurier and argues that she engaged fully with contemporary political, social, and intellectual issues through developing a conceptual framework of...
View ArticleVenice and the Novella: The Construction of Cultural Otherness in Daphne du...
Modern and contemporary Anglophone fictional narratives set in Venice construct a space associated with the domains of the mysterious and the uncanny. Analysing the creation of literary Venice in...
View ArticleTourists in Lands of Myths: Daphne du Maurier’s Touring of Venice and Crete...
This paper examines the critical way in which Daphne du Maurier combines myth with tourism to address the theme of metamorphosis in “Ganymede” and “Not After Midnight.” Fed on classical culture, the...
View ArticleA List of Daphne du Maurier’s Published Short Stories, in order of their...
Notes: (1) The eighteen stories marked with an asterisk were later published in Daphne Du Maurier, Early Stories, London: Todd, 1954 (without any illustrations) and 1955 (with black-and-white...
View ArticleDaphne du Maurier: An Updated Critical Bibliography
Primary Sources Short Stories and Inspirational Wartime Stories (50/11) Uncollected Early Stories (3) “Terror.” The Bystander 26 Dec. 1928: 678-79. Print. “A Man of Straw.” The Bystander 27 Nov. 1929:...
View ArticleCall for Papers: “Frontières et déplacements” – “Crossing / Borders”
Presentation In Ali Smith’s Spring (2019), a character proposes a redefinition of the border: “What if, the girl says. Instead of saying, this border divides these places. We said, this border unites...
View ArticleIntroduction
Daphne du Maurier and the Short Story Like many budding authors before her, the young Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) turned first to the writing of short stories, poems, and essays before attempting a...
View ArticleRediscovering Three Short Stories by Daphne du Maurier: “Terror,” “A Man of...
Three of Daphne du Maurier’s early stories, published in The Bystander (1928-1929) and in The Saturday Review (1931) but never anthologised or reprinted ever since, are discussed for the first time in...
View ArticleJoyce Carol Oates’s “Slow”: Sudden Detective Fiction?
Joyce Carol Oates’s fictional project, which considers literature to be both a realm for the exploration of unconscious impulses and a crucial element of lived experience, has led her to focus on...
View ArticleThe Revenge of the Invisible Woman in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Assassin”
The protagonist of Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “Assassin” is an aging, physically unattractive woman who suffers from no longer being seen by men and takes advantage of her invisibility to seek...
View ArticleTennessee Noir, or William Gay’s “The Paperhanger”
William Gay’s “The Paperhanger,” which was first published in the February 2000 issue of Harper’s Magazine, was then included in the 2002 collection of short stories entitled I Hate to See That...
View ArticlePrequels and Preludes: The Short Story and the Detective Novel Series
Although the detective short story was both popular and remunerative in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from the Golden Age onwards, most widely read authors of the genre have...
View ArticleTextual Tectonics in “The Man Who Died” by D. H. Lawrence
This article studies how D. H. Lawrence’s rewriting of the story of Christ’s resurrection operates along the textual fault-lines between the Bible and the novella “The Man Who Died” (1929), also known...
View ArticleA Failed Moses, or the Will to Power through Confession: The Significance of...
This article aims to present the different aspects of the (grand)father-son relationship in William Faulkner’s “The Bear” and “Barn Burning.” In “The Bear,” although the grandfather, Old Carothers, is...
View ArticleRereading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” as a Tale of Jim Crow America
Scholars have commonly placed Jackson’s fiction in the New England Gothic tradition. Her famous short story “The Lottery” is a case in point: universally seen as set in New England, it is often...
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