![]() In fact, in tales with male narrators like The Scapegoat and “Hungry Hill” (among the author’s favorites), her protagonists are killers, albeit otherwise dependent and inadequate men the women, however feisty they may seem, are destined to have “something gone wrong inside,” whether it be uterine cancer (Rebecca) or paralysis (The King’s General). of Pennsylvania Our Vampires, Ourselves, 1995, etc.) begins with an interesting enough thesis: that the prolific du Maurier (17 novels, 6 biographies, 2 plays, and a dozen collections of articles and stories), now best known for the Alfred Hitchcock movie versions of her novel Rebecca and her sinister short story “The Birds,” is unfairly categorized as a writer of “romances” in which suffering heroines fall into the arms of masterful males and live happily ever after. In this inaugural volume in a new series of -Personal Takes,- Auerbach (history and literature/Univ. ![]() a Daphne du Maurier whose works were “startlingly brilliant,” peopled with “most unsavory” men and “defective” women, and whose exegesis here is shrouded in literary fog. ![]()
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