02831nam 2200637Ia 450 991095317480332120200520144314.097866130984989781283098496128309849097815723371211572337125(CKB)2560000000054956(EBL)668939(OCoLC)699513593(SSID)ssj0000472068(PQKBManifestationID)11297814(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472068(PQKBWorkID)10433557(PQKB)11473452(MiAaPQ)EBC668939(MdBmJHUP)muse19676(Au-PeEL)EBL668939(CaPaEBR)ebr10437931(CaONFJC)MIL309849(Perlego)4876533(EXLCZ)99256000000005495620090923d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPhillis Wheatley and the Romantics /John C. Shields1st ed.Knoxville University of Tennessee Pressc20101 online resource (153 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781572337053 1572337052 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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, puAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismRomanticismAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.Romanticism.811/.1Shields John C.1944-1807252MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953174803321Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics4363490UNINA