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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Autor principal: Dorothy Dodge Robbins
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2016-04-01
Colecção:Names
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Acesso em linha:http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/2074