How to Read Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

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📚 Read Rebecca with the Hardcore Literature Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature ———————————— 🎙️https://open.spotify.com/show/70IZA248yNVkrjqzDNm6Lt?si=cadcb1c09ea74a51 (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify) ———————————— 📔Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3 ⚔️ The Count of Monte Cristo: https://tinyurl.com/bdf38bn8 🎖️ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma 🎭 Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7 🐳 Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf ☄️ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp 🍂 Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt 🇮🇪 Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN 🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv 💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5 ⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b 🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4 🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA ———————————— 0:00 ‘last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again’ 1:30 Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca spoiler-free talk 2:30 book club autumn lecture series for Rebecca 3:00 meeting the author Daphne du Maurier 5:00 when writers fall in love with a locale 6:00 growing up in the du Maurier family 7:00 Daphne’s trauma and identity crisis 8:00 portrait of the artist as a young woman 9:00 writing in the 1920s Paris cafe culture 10:00 leaving the Victorian era behind 11:00 landmark era for women’s rights 12:00 Victorian to Edwardian to Modern 14:00 birth of Modernism out of WWI 16:00 channeling trauma into great art 18:00 Daphne du Maurier’s Cornwall 20:00 Cornish myths, legends, folklore 21:00 a shipwreck inspires her first story 22:00 Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn 23:00 Menabilly, the real life Manderley 24:00 how Daphne met husband Tommy 25:00 real life romantic jealousy of the past 26:00 letters from her husband’s ex-fiancée 27:00 haunted by the ghost of her father 28:00 the marriage of Daphne du Maurier 29:00 trauma from the First World War 30:00 Daphne’s struggles with motherhood 31:00 the challenge of being the breadwinner 32:00 Daphne du Maurier in Alexandria 33:00 what inspired the novel Rebecca? 34:00 feeling of homesickness in Rebecca 35:00 the destruction of the first draft 36:00 Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptations 37:00 Daphne du Maurier on writing 38:00 the double life of Daphne du Maurier 40:00 Rebecca during the Interwar Years 41:00 looming threat of Second World War 42:00 Britain enters World War Two 43:00 carrying the scars of two world wars 44:00 Daphne du Maurier during WWII 45:00 crisis of faith in the 20th century 46:00 Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds 47:00 Rebecca and the Gothic tradition 48:00 was Daphne du Maurier a Modernist? 49:00 what does gothic literature mean? 50:00 formulation for unlocking the gothic 52:00 French Revolution and gothic evolution 54:00 Gothic as corrupted quest romance 55:00 structural definition of romance 57:00 rebirth, renewal and reunion 58:00 heroines at the centre of the gothic 1:00:00 gothic as male or female fantasy? 1:02:00 the byronic anti-hero archetype 1:04:00 brooding Maxim de Winter 1:05:00 on the rise of women writers 1:06:00 gothic and the rise of the novel 1:08:00 sublime terror in the gothic 1:09:00 difference in terror vs horror 1:10:00 why do we love the sublime? 1:11:00 the war of realism vs romance 1:13:00 gothic literature as political force 1:14:00 proto-feminist critique in the gothic 1:15:00 historical skewed marital rights 1:17:00 woman defined in relation to man 1:18:00 Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre 1:20:00 Sally Beauman on Rebecca 1:22:00 gothic as eternally popular literature 1:23:00 the threat feared becomes internal 1:25:00 identity crisis at the heart of Rebecca 1:26:00 the story of du Maurier’s Rebecca 1:28:00 the narrator’s possessive jealousy 1:29:00 marriage in modern gothic novels 1:30:00 Manderley as masculine metaphor 1:31:00 the two Mrs de Winter characters 1:32:00 the dominating presence of the book 1:33:00 reading as dreaming whilst awake 1:34:00 complex persona put into both women 1:35:00 what does being possessed mean? 1:36:00 haunting means returning home 1:37:00 how Rebecca became a bestseller 1:39:00 is du Maurier really a romance writer? 1:40:00 Daphne du Maurier vs the critics 1:41:00 why I reread Rebecca every few years 1:42:00 Rebecca book club lecture series