Contents: Introduction, Simon Cooke and Paul Goldman. Du Maurier as an Artist and Illustrator: Du Maurier as a draughtsman and illustrator, Paul Goldman; 'Splendacious' effects: George Du Maurier and early sensation fiction, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge; Illustrating the everyday: illustration and text in 'Wives and Daughters', Alan Shelston; George Du Maurier's illustrations for Thomas Hardy's 'The Hand of Ethelberta' and 'A Laodicean', Philip V. Allingham; 'The fountain of one's own originality': Du Maurier's theories of illustration and how he applied them to his work, Simon Cooke. Du Maurier as a Novelist: Peter Ibbetson and Du Maurier's 'French voice', Anne Hall; Du Maurier's Paris: Peter Ibbetson, Haussmann and industrial memory, Susan Zieger; Without memory or desire: the model's progress in Trilby, Jane Desmarais; Mesmeric celebrity, art, and authorship in Trilby, Hilary Grimes; Indestructible germs and perishable specks: the golden bridge between science and faith in The Martian, Genie Babb. Image, Text, Commentary: A novel reflection: George Du Maurier as a social commentator, David Wootton; 'My pretty woman': the presentation of women in George Du Maurier's cartoons and novels, Leonée Ormond; Trilby's 'kitchen': the displaced domestic spaces of George Du Maurier and Henry James, Sara Thornton; Du Maurier and the 'Oriental Israelite Hebrew Jew[s]', Sarah Gracombe. Changing Perspectives: Du Maurier's 'After-life': Softening Svengali: film transformations of Trilby and cultural change, Louise Macdonald. Appendix; Works cited; Index.
George du Maurier: Illustrator, Author, Critic : Beyond Svengali