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Autore |
Shields John C. <1944-> |
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Titolo |
Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics / / John C. Shields |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-09849-0 |
9786613098498 |
1-57233-712-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (153 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
Romanticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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