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- Title
'Du Maurierness' and the Mediatization of Memory.
- Authors
Zieger, Susan
- Abstract
George Du Maurier's second novel, Trilby (1894), refers to its heroine's refreshing appeal as 'Trilbyness'; in this article, 'Du Maurierness' describes the author's well-noted ingratiating rapport with the consumers of his illustrated fiction and cartoons. Focusing on Du Maurier's first novel, Peter Ibbetson (1891), the essay shows how this charming immediacy draws on an abiding cultural fantasy of transparent media technologies. The novel's protagonist clairvoyantly reconstructs the past so that he may consume music, art, and history; this ideal of 'dreaming true' idealizes the technological mediation and commodification of memory. As novelist and cartoonist, Du Maurier consistently celebrated the possibilities for media technologies to extend the self, even as they eroded embodied memory, the unconscious, and conventional experience.
- Subjects
DU Maurier, George, 1834-1896; PETER Ibbetson (Book : du Maurier); TRILBY (Book); MARTIAN, The (Book : Du Maurier); MEMORY in literature; MASS media in literature; FANTASY in literature; LITERARY criticism; 19TH century English fiction; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Studies, 2013, Vol 56, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0042-5222
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2979/victorianstudies.56.1.31