“But who is to say what is fake and what is real?” – Spectral and Textual Haunting in Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton
This essay looks at how the phenomenon of haunting is discussed in Peter Ackroyd’s novel Chatterton (1989). It analyses in which forms the idea of haunting appears and which function it fulfils in the text. Of particular interest here is the multi-layered narrative which presents haunting in several...
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University of Edinburgh
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/607 |