The Ghostly Body of England in Mary Butts’ ‘With and Without Buttons’

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  • Tom Slingsby University of Sussex

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Mary Butts, Modernism, Short Story, Ghost

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The Ghostly Body of England in Mary Butts’ ‘With and Without Buttons’. (2006). Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, 14. https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/63