Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic poetics
"Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic poetics responds to the critical and disciplinary divisions and prejudices that have limited recognition of how Wheatley positions herself as an American Milton in the 1773 Poems. Calling for new theorization of the methods of literary history and (inter)textua...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Basingstoke u.a.
Palgrave Pivot
2014
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Palgrave Pivot
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic poetics responds to the critical and disciplinary divisions and prejudices that have limited recognition of how Wheatley positions herself as an American Milton in the 1773 Poems. Calling for new theorization of the methods of literary history and (inter)textual analysis this volume shows how Wheatley uses Milton to develop a sublime poetics whose assertions of imaginative power and fanciful freedom both envision an ideal Anglo-American nation and resist the coercions of the English transatlantic Prologue: The humble Afric muse's seat -- Conspiracy theory: "Britannia's distant shore" : Miltonic Wheatley ; Metropolitan bogey ; The Wheatleyan moment -- Authority and challenge: 'Where shall a sov'reign remedy be found?" : "While bright Aurora purples o'er the main" ; "An intrinsic ardor prompts to write" ; "My sympathizing verse" -- Wheatley's fanciful sublime: "What songs should rise!" : "Let thy thoughts be praises" ; "The pow'r enthron'd / In ev'ry breast" ; "Now here, now there, the roving fancy flies |
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| Beschreibung: | XIV, 154 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9781137474773 978-1-137-47477-3 |