Du Maurierness” and the Mediatization of Memory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10866948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zieger Zieger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/victorianstudies.56.1.31 |
| OpenAlex | W2015971321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
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
Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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Discourse Networks, 1800/1900
After the Great Divide
Critical Terms for Media Studies
Literature in the Marketplace
Advertising and Fiction in the Pickwick Papers
Just a singing-machine
Modes of Production of Victorian Novels
Golden Multitudes
Suspensions of perception
Aesthetics and Anaesthetics
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |