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Trilby / George Du Maurier ; with an introduction by Elaine Showalter ; notes by Dennis Denisoff.
- Title
- Trilby / George Du Maurier ; with an introduction by Elaine Showalter ; notes by Dennis Denisoff.
- Author
- Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Denisoff, Dennis, 1961-
- Description
- xxvi, 339 p. : ill.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Overview: "Du Maurier's Trilby was the novel sensation of the 1890s. Du Maurier had spent a good deal of his life as a child and later as an art student in Paris; when he turned from his career in journalism and magazine illustration to novel writing he found enormous success with a novel divided as his own life had been between Paris and London. Billee, an English artist living the Bohemian life abroad, meets and falls in love with Trilby, a Parisian model. Differences in social class doom their romance, but Trilby, taught by the mysterious hypnotist Svengali to sing like "some enchanted princess" becomes a famous entertainer. As it turns out, however, her talent and her possession of her own mind have become dependent on Svengali maintaining his spell over her. "The name "Svengali" came to be applied to any hypnotist and the image of Svengali carved a lasting place in the popular imagination. Perhaps the most important expression of 1890s Bohemianism, Trilby has also attracted interest in recent years on account of its presentation of hypnosis and split personality, and for the conflicted but often anti-Semitic presentation of the mysterious Svengali.
- Series Statement
- Oxford world's classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Musical fiction.
- Love stories
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- Chronology of George Du Maurier -- Triblaby: -- Explanatory notes.
- ISBN
- 9780199538805 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009502224
- OCLC
- 317930820
- SCSB-11601143
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library