Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics / John C. Shields.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shields, John C., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Romanticism.

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784--Criticism and interpretation.

Wheatley, Phillis.

Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613098498

9781283098496

1283098490

9781572337121

1572337125

OCLC:

699513593