In Robertson Davies' 1972 novel The Manticore, the story is referred to by the character Dr. Von Haller, in a discussion about the significance of losing one's shadow.
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Ernest Gellner in Nations and Nationalism uses Chamisso's story as a metaphor of a man without a shadow.
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Peter Schlemihl and his lost shadow are mentioned in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1844 short story, "The Intelligence Office" (in Mosses from an Old Manse).
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