Virginia Jackson
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"Winner of the 2006 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Book Awards" "Winner of the 2005 Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association" Virginia Jackson is Associate Professor of English at New York University. She publishes on various aspects of nineteenth-century American poetic culture, on historical poetics, and on lyric theory.
How do we know that Emily Dickinson wrote poems? How do we recognize a poem when we see one? In Dickinson's...
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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.
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...