Women at Sea: Locating and Escaping Gender on the Cornish Coast in Daphne du Maurier’s The Loving Spirit and Frenchman’s Creek

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