Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691232805ISBN-10:691232806UPC:9780691232805Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Modern, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:African American & Black, 19th CenturySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCVFETZDQ3
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric
How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries
Before Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry. Through inspired readings of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley Peters, George Moses Horton, Ann Plato, James...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691232805ISBN-10:691232806UPC:9780691232805Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Modern, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:African American & Black, 19th CenturySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCVFETZDQ3
Virginia Jackson is UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading (Princeton) and the editor (with Yopie Prins) of The Lyric Theory Reader: A Critical Anthology.
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