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Marianne Moore and the cultures of modernity

The monograph draws on two articles published prior to 2008: ‘Marianne Moore and the Arcadian Pleasures of Shopping’ in Women: A Cultural Review, 12, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 218-235; and ‘“Just Looking” at the Everyday: Marianne Moore’s Exotic Modernism’, Modernist Cultures, 2 (2006): 58-69. Both articles focus on individual poems as distinct from the much broader focus in the corresponding chapters of the book. The monograph develops a thesis that draws on archival research relating to Moore’s interest in American pragmatism that does not appear in either published article.

This monograph is based on extensive research undertaken at the Rosenbach Museum and Library drawing on previously unexplored archival material from Marianne Moore’s correspondence, poetry notebooks and scrapbooks. Developed over several years and including a period of research leave funded by the AHRC in 2002, the monograph not only provides original interpretations of Moore’s poetry, but also a theorised and historically nuanced understanding of the relation between poetic modernism and the philosophical history of modernity.