{"title":"Virginia Jackson","description":"\u003cp\u003eVirginia Jackson’s work delves into the rich intersections of literature, culture, and history, inviting readers to explore the evolution of modern artistic expression. Her writing often examines the nuances of early modernism and its impact across the arts, offering thoughtful analysis and fresh perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e will find Jackson’s books thoughtfully composed and intellectually engaging, perfect for those who appreciate a deep dive into the shifts that shaped contemporary creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"before-modernism-by-virginia-jackson-9780691232799","title":"Before Modernism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBefore Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e 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 Monroe Whitfield, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—as well as the poetry of neglected but once popular White poets William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—Virginia Jackson demonstrates how Black poets inspired the direction that American poetics has taken for the past two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an idea of poetry based on genres of poems such as ballads, elegies, odes, hymns, drinking songs, and epistles gave way to an idea of poetry based on genres of people—Black, White, male, female, Indigenous—almost all poetry became lyric poetry. Jackson discusses the important role played by Frederick Douglass as an influential editor and publisher of Black poetry and traces the twisted paths leading to our current understanding of lyric. 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