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

• Autore: Shields John C. <1944->
• Pubblicazione: Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (153 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.1
• Soggetto topico: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism; Romanticism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics
• ISBN: 1-283-09849-0; 9786613098498; 1-57233-712-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808898403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II