R is for Rebecca: A Consonant and Consummate Haunting
In Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938), the narrator, a second wife, is haunted by her predecessor’s first initial. A towering R is the signature mark of the infamous Rebecca, a woman presumed to have drowned, but revealed to have been murdered. The most visible manifestation of Rebecca’s ghostly pr...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2016-04-01
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Accesso online: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2074 |