[Commlist] CfP: New perspectives on the legacy of Daphne du Maurier

We are looking for a few more chapter proposals to expand our 
forthcoming edited collection, /New perspectives on the legacy of Daphne 
du Maurier/. The collection explores du Maurier’s work in adaptation, 
including her most famous work /Rebecca/ and its many adaptations. It 
has already had some interest from a publisher.
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love,” writes 
Daphne du Maurier in her 1938 domestic Gothic novel /Rebecca/. But to 
look at du Maurier’s legacy is to see the fever of love for her stories 
happen over and over again. Her oeuvre’s influences on the 20th century 
domestic gothic and 21st century domestic noir literary genres have been 
well documented, while her works has been adapted for the screen 
multiple times, most notably by Alfred Hitchcock.
Such a sprawling, complex and ever-developing legacy illustrates the 
indelible mark du Maurier has left on popular culture, but, as the 
author herself suggests, the fever of first love might never be truly 
replicated. How, then, can we consider the lasting legacy of her work, 
particularly its many adaptations? What is lost in the retelling of the 
tales, and how might the stories have been changed and updated to 
rekindle something of that feverish first love for new audiences? In 
what ways do these adaptations cross boundaries of genre and media 
formats? What might this tell us about the nature of adaptation more 
generally, particularly in a contemporary climate obsessed with 
nostalgic remakes and revivals?
So far, we have chapters that cover adaptations of /Rebecca/ from 
Hitchcock’s film adaptation to the 2023 musical. Other chapters look at 
Turkish cinematic adaptations, hydrofeminism and contemporary cookbooks 
as adaptations. As we are expanding the scope of this collection, we are 
currently specifically interested in chapter proposals that engage with 
du Maurier’s oeuvre in adaptation beyond /Rebecca/ including but not 
limited to adaptations such as
- /The Birds/ – film adaptation from 1963 and the 2008 BBC Radio 4 Extra 
adaptation
- /My Cousin Rachel/ – film adaptations from 1952 and 2017
- /Jamaica Inn/ – 1939 film adaptation and 2014 TV show adaptation
- /Frenchman’s Creek/ – 1944 film adaptation
- /Don't Look Now/ - 1973 film adaptation and 2001 BBC Radio 4 Classic 
Series adaptation
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words, plus a short bio of 50 
words, to the editors, Katharina Hendrickx ((K.Hendrickx /at/ sussex.ac.uk)) 
and Amelia Crowther ((Amelia.Crowther /at/ sussex.ac.uk)), by 24 June 2024. 
Please also send any questions to the above email addresses. A deadline 
for first drafts will be set once the updated proposal has been reviewed 
by the publisher.

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