Preaching the gospel of black revolt : appropriating Milton in early African American literature /
"In this comparative and hybrid study, Wilburn examines the presence and influence of John Milton in a diverse array of early African American writing such as Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Anna Julia Cooper, Sutton E. Griggs, and others"--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
Duquesne University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making "darkness visible": Milton and early African American literature
- Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic journeys in poems on various subjects
- Black audio-visionaries and the rise of Miltonic influence in colonial America and the Early Republic
- Of might and men: Milton, Frederick Douglass and resistant masculinity as existential geography
- Breaking new grounds with Milton in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Moses: a story of the Nile
- Miltonic soundscapes in Anna Julia Cooper's A voice from the South
- Returning to Milton's hell with weapons of "perfect passivity" in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in imperio
- Epilogue. Malcolm X, Paradise lost, and the twentieth century infernal reader.