Journal article
‘Its native surroundings’: Marianne Moore, England, and the idea of the ‘characteristic American’
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Marianne Moore claimed that she was ‘Irish by descent, possibly Scotch also, but purely Celtic’. Critics have gone so far as to claim Moore as an Irish-American poet. In so doing they have glossed over the English side of her family background (as did Moore herself). This is perhaps unsurprising, considering that it was Moore's father, from whom she was estranged throughout her life, who was of English ancestry. Nevertheless, this ancestry lurks in the background of her imagination. This arti...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Edinburgh University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Modernist Cultures Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 48-64
- Publication date:
- 2016-02-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-05-26
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- ISSN:
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2041-1022
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- 2016-09-06
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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accepted manuscript of a journal article published by Edinburgh University Press in Modernist Cultures on 2016-02-01, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/mod.2016.0125
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