Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt : : Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature / / Reginald A. Wilburn.
In this comparative and hybrid study, Reginald A. Wilburn offers the first scholarly work to theorize African American authors’ rebellious appropriations of Milton and his canon. Wilburn engages African Americans’ transatlantic negotiations with perhaps the preeminent freedom writer in the English t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (406 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Making “Darkness Visible”
- Chapter 2. Phillis Wheatley’s Miltonic Journeys in Poems on Various Subjects
- Chapter 3. Black Audio-Visionaries and the Rise of Miltonic Influence in Colonial America and the Early Republic
- Chapter 4. Of Might and Men
- Chapter 5. Breaking New Grounds with Milton in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Moses: A Story of the Nile
- Chapter 6. Miltonic Soundscapes in Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice from the South
- Chapter 7. Returning to Milton’s Hell with Weapons of Perfect Passivity in Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index