Abstract
Goodman examines two of Daphne du Maurier’s Cornish novels – The Loving Spirit and Frenchman’s Creek. The marketisation of ‘du Maurier’s Cornwall’ by the tourist industry feeds both a version of Cornwall as romantic and picturesque, and the pigeonholing of du Maurier’s novels as over-simplistically romantic. The chapter problematises constructions of the Cornish coast and of gender in the novels through exploring the experiences of the novels’ female protagonists. Janet Coombe and Dona St Columb look to escape social constructions of gender and the sea functions as a space of possibility for such an escape. Yet freedom is always ultimately denied. The Cornish coastal site can be understood as both suggesting and denying freedom from gender within the context of its ambiguous relationship to England.
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