Phillis Wheatley And The Romantics
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Phillis Wheatley And The Romantics
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Author : John C. Shields
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2010-08-19
Phillis Wheatley And The Romantics written by John C. Shields and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
"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, 1760-1835. Phillis 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, publishing her first.
The Odyssey Of Phillis Wheatley
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Author : David Waldstreicher
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2023-03-07
The Odyssey Of Phillis Wheatley written by David Waldstreicher and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography “[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher’s] interpretations equal Wheatley’s own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement.” —Tiya Miles, The Atlantic “Thoroughly researched, beautifully rendered and cogently argued . . . The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is [. . .] historical biography at its best.” —Kerri Greenidge, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution. Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope and Milton, she composed elegies for local elites, celebrated political events, praised warriors, and used her verse to variously lampoon, question, and assert the injustice of her enslaved condition. “Can I then but pray / Others may never feel tyrannic sway?” By doing so, she added her voice to a vibrant, multisided conversation about race, slavery, and discontent with British rule; before and after her emancipation, her verses shook up racial etiquette and used familiar forms to create bold new meanings. She demonstrated a complex but crucial fact of the times: that the American Revolution both strengthened and limited Black slavery. In this new biography, the historian David Waldstreicher offers the fullest account to date of Wheatley’s life and works, correcting myths, reconstructing intimate friendships, and deepening our understanding of her verse and the revolutionary era. Throughout The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, he demonstrates the continued vitality and resonance of a woman who wrote, in a founding gesture of American literature, “Thy Power, O Liberty, makes strong the weak / And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak.”
Phillis Wheatley As Prophetic Poet
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Author : Wallis C. Baxter III
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-05-04
Phillis Wheatley As Prophetic Poet written by Wallis C. Baxter III and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet, the author argues that Phillis Wheatley is the mother of liberation theology. The author uses Wheatley’s poetry and life experiences to create a portrait of Wheatley beyond that of a poet. Wheatley is described as both poet and visionary who wrestles with God during the creative process. The lyrical expressions of Wheatley’s poetry unlock the spiritual impressions on her heart. The author sets up the racial dynamics of Wheatley’s time and her engagement with those politics. As a preacher, Wheatley combats the immoral undercurrent that erodes the community’s social, economic, and spiritual foundation as well as its political systems. The author positions Wheatley as one uniquely qualified to address the hypocrisy within her world and, by implication, present-day society by calling for immersion into a radical understanding of love and justice, resulting in a renewed hope for equality and a pathway toward equity.
Phillis Wheatley And Thomas Jefferson Then And Now
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Author : Arthur Scherr
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-16
Phillis Wheatley And Thomas Jefferson Then And Now written by Arthur Scherr and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-16 with History categories.
This panoramic study combines a survey of the life of child prodigy and renowned African American poet Phillis Wheatley, her work and experiences, and uniquely, a careful rendering and reassessment of the opinions of her contemporaries and the ideas and motivations of present-day scholars regarding her verse and historical significance. Arthur Scherr, an expert on the transatlantic Enlightenment and such major figures of American political culture as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe, adds a vital new perspective to our understanding of Phillis Wheatley. Also investigated is the relationship between Wheatley and the statesman whom scholars generally depict as Wheatley’s greatest adversary: Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and tarnished American icon. The book analyzes the meaning and significance of Jefferson’s three-sentence critique of Wheatley’s poetry in Notes on the State of Virginia (1787), published in London three years after her death.
Phillis Wheatley S Miltonic Poetics
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Author : P. Loscocco
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-12
Phillis Wheatley S Miltonic Poetics written by P. Loscocco and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women.
New Essays On Phillis Wheatley
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Author : John C. Shields
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2011-05-30
New Essays On Phillis Wheatley written by John C. Shields and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-30 with Literary Collections categories.
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. 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 have been reconceived. Fourteen prominent Wheatley scholars consider her work from a variety of angles, affirming her rise into the first rank of American writers. --from publisher description.
The Age Of Phillis
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Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-20
The Age Of Phillis written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Poetry categories.
“An arresting and meticulously researched collection of poems” about the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first black woman to publish a book in America (Ms. Magazine). In 1773, a young African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry, Poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). When Wheatley’s book appeared, her words would challenge Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Her words would astound many and irritate others, but one thing was clear: This young woman was extraordinary. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood with her parents in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters, and her untimely death at the age of about thirty-three. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's “age”—the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley’s relationship to black people and their individual “mercies” is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history.
The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley
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Author : Phillis Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Release Date : 1988
The Collected Works Of Phillis Wheatley written by Phillis Wheatley and has been published by Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.
Contains the complete works of the first African-American to publish a book of poetry.
Call Of Classical Literature In The Romantic Age
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Author : K. P. Van Anglen
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-31
Call Of Classical Literature In The Romantic Age written by K. P. Van Anglen and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examines the role that cinema played in imagining Hong Kong and Taiwan's place in the world
Visualizing Blackness And The Creation Of The African American Literary Tradition
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Author : Lena Hill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-02-17
Visualizing Blackness And The Creation Of The African American Literary Tradition written by Lena Hill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Negative stereotypes of African Americans have long been disseminated through the visual arts. This original and incisive study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred years of African American literary history, from Phillis Wheatley to Ralph Ellison, and engages with a variety of canonical and lesser-known writers. Chapters interweave literary history, museum culture, and visual analysis of numerous illustrations with close readings of Booker T. Washington, Gwendolyn Bennett, Zora Neale Hurston, Melvin Tolson, and others. Together, these sections register the degree to which African American writers rely on vision - its modes, consequences, and insights - to demonstrate black intellectual and cultural sophistication. Hill's provocative study will interest scholars and students of African American literature and American literature more broadly.