The ideological origins of African American literature / Phillip M. Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Phillip M., 1950- author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Puritan movements in literature.

Romanticism--United States--History.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 375 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2025]

Contents:

The Anglo-European setting of Black literature's emergence

Anglo-American continuities of civic and religious thought in the institutional world of early Black writing

The Black assimilation of Jonathan Edward's thought and revival piety

The preaching of Jupiter Hammon

Phillis Wheatley : the consensual Blackness of early African American writing

Wheatley and the sublime

The story of Joseph as slave narrative

Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, and Ottabah Cugoano : men of letters

Frederick Douglass, autonomy, and autobiography

Frederick Douglass : culture, literature, and its discontents

Black intellectual writings of the 1850s, 60s, and 70s

Black intellectual formation and and activity within the structure of the A.M.E. Church

W. E. B. Du Bois as Romantic and Modernist

The early poetry of Langston Hughes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: Richards, Phillip M., 1950- Ideological origins of African American literature

ISBN:

9781621908975

1621908976

9781621904595

1621904598

Publisher Number:

40032832198

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