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Daphne Du Maurier:

Haunted Heiress
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University of Pennsylvania Press, Oct 1, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 192 pages

Auerbach examines the writer of depth and recklessness now largely known only as the author of Rebecca, looking at the way her sharp-edged fiction, with its brutal and often perverse family relationships, has been softened in film adaptations of her work. She reads both du Maurier's life in her writings, and the sensibility of a vanished class and time that haunts the fringes of our own age.

  

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User Review  - Kay - Goodreads

This book is both a critical appreciation of Daphne Du Maurier's writing and a personal account of Nina Auerbach's relationship (as a reader)with Du Maurier. As usual, Auerbach offers fascinating ... Read full review

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User Review  - Ben Lovegrove - Goodreads

I made the mistake of buying this thinking it was a biography, when it is more like literary criticism. I was surprised by the author's claim that at the time of writing (2000) all of du Maurier's books with the exception of Rebecca were out of print. Read full review

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DAPHNE DU MAURIER: HAUNTED HEIRESS Nina Auerbach University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, 2000. Auerbach's study of the author of REBECCA presents a ...
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Nina Auerbach's ''Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress'' turns the focus on her writings and attempts to lay to rest the prevailing notion that she was just a ...
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Nina Auerback who is the author of the acclaimed biography “Daphne du Maurier - Haunted Heiress” talked about her book and her view of Daphne du Maurier ...
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In Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress, a fascinating, profoundly intelligent, and stunningly well‐written book, Auerbach also treats, among a variety of ...
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Daphne du Maurier: Haunted Heiress by Nina Auerbach (Philadelphia: University. of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), 180 pp., $24.95. ...
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caxtonian. JOURNAL OF THE CAXTON CLUB. VOLUME XV, NO. 8. AUGUST 2007. Peggy Sullivan. “S. he wrote Rebecca, didn’t she?”That. was the most common response ...
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About the author (2002)

Nina Auerbach is John Welsh Centennial Professor of History and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of numerous books, including Ellen Terry, Player in Her Time, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and Our Vampires, Ourselves.

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TitleDaphne Du Maurier: Haunted Heiress
Personal Takes
AuthorNina Auerbach
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2002
ISBN0812218361, 9780812218367
Length192 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Biography & Autobiography / Literary
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Literary Criticism / European / French
  
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