Preaching the gospel of black revolt

appropriating Milton in early African American literature

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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"--

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Language
English
Pages
392

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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.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/896073
Library of Congress
PS153.N5 W458 2014, PS153.N5W458 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
pages cm
Number of pages
392

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26883964M
ISBN 13
9780820704715
LCCN
2013039610
OCLC/WorldCat
865157893

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19664909W

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