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Haunted English:

The Celtic Fringe, the British Empire, and De-Anglicization
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Haunted English explores the role of language in colonization and decolonization by examining how Anglo-Celtic modernists W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Marianne Moore "de-Anglicize" their literary vernaculars. Laura O'Connor demonstrates how the poets' struggles with and through the colonial tongue are discernible in their signature styles, using aspects of those styles to theorize the dynamics of linguistic imperialism -- as both a distinct process and an integral part of cultural imperialism. O'Connor argues that the advance of the English Pale and the accompanying translation of the receding Gaelic culture into a romanticized Celtic Fringe represents multilingual British culture as if it were exclusively English-speaking and yet registers, on a subliminal level, some of the cultural losses entailed by English-only Anglicization. Taking the fin-de-si+¿cle movements of the Gaelic revival and the Irish Literary Renaissance as her point of departure, O'Connor examines the effort to undo cultural cringe through language and literary activism.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beyond the Pale2. ""Eater and Eaten"": The Haunted English of W. B. Yeats3. Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetics of Caricature4. An Irish Incognita: The Idiosyncrasy of Marianne MooreNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

""Insightful, scintillating, attentive to every nuance... O'connor's study will reward greatly anyone interested in the critical revivalism that is both her subject and her inheritance.""

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