Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric. By Virginia Jackson. Princeton UP, 2023, 304 pp.

2024/05/06 by Leßlhumer, Lena
#18th / 19th century #American lyric #Phillis Wheatley #Watkins Harper #book review #deep design #female Black US poets

paper · doi:10.47060/jaaas.v5i1.200

Abstract

Lena E. Leßlhumer reviews Virginia Jackson's Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric (Princeton UP, 2023).

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