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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818360103321

Titolo

New essays on Phillis Wheatley [[electronic resource] /] / edited by John C. Shields and Eric D. Lamore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-23933-7

9786613239334

1-57233-801-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShieldsJohn C. <1944->

LamoreEric D

Disciplina

811/.1

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

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

pt. 1. Examining new manifestations of classicism in the poetics of Phillis Wheatley -- pt. 2. Placing Phillis Wheatley in newly applied historical contexts.

Sommario/riassunto

The first African American to publish a book on any subject, poet  Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) has long been denigrated by literary  critics who refused to believe that a black woman could produce such  dense, intellectual work, let alone influence Romantic-period giants  like Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson once declared  that "the compositions published under her name are below dignity of  criticism." In recent decades, however, Wheatley's work has come under  new scrutiny as the literature of the eighteenth century and the impact  of African American literature h