7/7/2023 0 Comments Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill![]() Daphne du Maurier’s characters in Rebecca (1938) still have a hold on readers’ imagination, with the formidable and haunting eponymous figure threatening the new couple and, through the agency of Mrs Danvers, the life of the second Mrs de Winter. Characters thus constitute some of the main ingredients in sequel-writing. 2 Indeed, texts that are adapted, reworked or continued generally belong to the canon (Sanders 98) and it is often through their characters that texts are remembered. Character migration is also a feature of the sequel, a genre that is far from new 1 but which enjoyed a remarkable revival in its allographic form in the 1990s, novels by Jane Austen and the Brontës being among the favourites for follow-ups. Recently, th (.)ġ The transfer, playful or not, of a character from one text to another can be observed in a variety of texts such as rewritings that change elements of the diegesis to reach a different conclusion or in companion novels (or coquels) that take the reader and some characters for a step aside and develop a new element. ![]() 2 See Stoneman (238-9) and her subpart “The Sequels syndrome” (234-252) and Lynch (160). ![]() Hillis Miller gives Anthony Trolloppe’s and Elisabet (.) 1 After The Illiad and the Odyssey, Don Quixote. ![]()
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