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

• Pubblicazione: Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.1
• Soggetto topico: American literature - African American authors - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ShieldsJohn C. <1944-> LamoreEric D
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: New essays on Phillis Wheatley
• ISBN: 1-283-23933-7; 9786613239334; 1-57233-801-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456582303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II