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"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"--
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Preaching the gospel of black revolt: appropriating Milton in early African American literature
2014, Duquesne University Press
in English
0820704717 9780820704715
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Table of Contents
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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.

