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.
"""[Before Modernism is] full of fascinating detail and Jackson’s research is impeccable.""---Alan Dent, Penniless Press"