Before Modernism : Inventing American Lyric /

"In Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric, Virginia Jackson argues that in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry. This is not a history of American poetry that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Virginia, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetics.
Lyric poetry.
American poetry > African American authors.
American poetry.
Poetics > History.
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 18th century > History and criticism.
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
Literary criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What History Does to Us
  • Apostrophe, Racism, and Abstraction: Pierpont, Douglass, Whitfield
  • and Horton
  • Personification: On Phillis Wheatley's Memory
  • Prosody: William Cullen Bryant and the White Romantic Lyric
  • The Poetess: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Coda: The Prophecy

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