Laurie Huggett
Department: Doctoral College
Discipline: English
Research Centre/Unit: College of Humanities
Project Summary
My research project is titled 'Disrupted Memory and the Restoration of the ‘Normal’: Daphne du Maurier and the Cold War, 1949-1960'. Looking closely at both published and unpublished material from the 1950s, I am examining how du Maurier’s writing engages with the cultural anxieties of the period. I consider representations of guilt, trust and history within her writing and how these themes respond to the social marginalisation of emotion and the recasting of a post-war ‘normality’ in the 1950s.
Supervisory Team
Dr. Kirsty Martin
Dr. Vike Plock
Wider Research Interests
I am interested in female 'middlebrow' authors of the 1940s and 50s. I am also more widely interested in the Gothic within nineteenth and twentieth century literature, particularly representations of 'hauntings' within texts.
