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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458071903321

Autore

Shields John C. <1944->

Titolo

Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics [[electronic resource] /] / John C. Shields

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-09849-0

9786613098498

1-57233-712-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

811/.1

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

Romanticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Before Wheatley: the imagination from Plato to Bruno -- Before Wheatley: the imagination from Bruno to William Billings -- Wheatley's "long poem" and subsequent considerations -- After Wheatley: in England, France, and Germany, excluding Kant -- Kant and Wheatley -- Wheatley and Coleridge -- Concluding remarks: is Wheatley the progenetrix of Romanticism? -- Postscript: what remains to be done.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book very conclusively debunks the over two-hundred-year-old conventional wisdom that Wheatley owes her poetic sensibilities to Alexander Pope. . . . It will help rejuvenate the study of Wheatley and will be an exciting contribution to scholarly discourse on Wheatley's poetry." -Cedrick May, author of Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, pu