The Spirit of Labor: Spiritualism and the Industrial Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Although typically characterized as authors of social realism or social gospel fiction, respectively, Elizabeth Gaskell's and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's nineteenth-century industrial novels defy traditional generic designations through their deployment of supernatural and spiritualist discourse to ot...
| Publicado en: | Religion & the Arts Vol. 26; no. 1/2; pp. 112 - 136 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2022
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