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Autore: | Shields John C. <1944-> |
Titolo: | Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics [[electronic resource] /] / John C. Shields |
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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910458071903321 |
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