02556nam 2200589 a 450 991045658230332120200520144314.01-283-23933-797866132393341-57233-801-6(CKB)2550000000041515(EBL)735428(OCoLC)741492982(SSID)ssj0000524436(PQKBManifestationID)12210349(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524436(PQKBWorkID)10545924(PQKB)11111131(MiAaPQ)EBC735428(MdBmJHUP)muse18497(Au-PeEL)EBL735428(CaPaEBR)ebr10485598(CaONFJC)MIL323933(EXLCZ)99255000000004151520110124d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew essays on Phillis Wheatley[electronic resource] /edited by John C. Shields and Eric D. Lamore1st ed.Knoxville University of Tennessee Pressc20111 online resource (432 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57233-726-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Examining new manifestations of classicism in the poetics of Phillis Wheatley -- pt. 2. Placing Phillis Wheatley in newly applied historical contexts.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 hAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismElectronic books.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.811/.1Shields John C.1944-1034012Lamore Eric D1034013MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456582303321New essays on Phillis Wheatley2452872UNINA