Ebook: Spectral Dickens: The uncanny forms of novelistic characterization

Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickens’ illustrated novels through a frame of ontologically-haunted concepts like the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian Real, Bove’s work haunts the opposition between fictional character and real person with the uncanniness of literary forms.