The Vulgarity of Spiritualism: Modernity's Privileged Discourses in Rachel Ferguson's The Brontes Went to Woolworths

Authors :: Rea, Ann
Source :: Papers on Language & Literature. Spring, 2021, Vol. 57 Issue 2, p203, 25 p.
Publication Year :: 2021
Abstract: Rachel Ferguson's eccentric 1931 novel, The Brontes Went to Woolworths, troubles many assumptions about modernism and the middlebrow and modernity's distinctions between these categories. The novel's meaning emerges only amidst [...]

Subjects :: The Brontes Went to Woolworths (Novel) -- Criticism and interpretation
Spiritualism -- Social aspects -- Political aspects
Modernism -- Portrayals
Novelists -- Criticism and interpretation
Discourse analysis
Social classes -- Portrayals
Languages and linguistics
Literature/writing

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