000438351 000__ 05168cam\a2200445\a\4500 000438351 001__ 438351 000438351 005__ 20210513152843.0 000438351 006__ m\\\\\\\\u\\\\\\\\ 000438351 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000438351 008__ 120530s2011\\\\tnu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\d 000438351 010__ $$z 2011001958 000438351 020__ $$a9781572338012 (electronic bk.) 000438351 020__ $$z9781572337268 000438351 020__ $$z1572337265 000438351 020__ $$z1572338016 000438351 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn741492982 000438351 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10485598 000438351 035__ $$a438351 000438351 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000438351 043__ $$an-us--- 000438351 05014 $$aPS866.W5$$bZ67 2011eb 000438351 08204 $$a811/.1$$222 000438351 24500 $$aNew essays on Phillis Wheatley$$h[electronic resource] /$$cedited by John C. Shields and Eric D. Lamore. 000438351 250__ $$a1st ed. 000438351 260__ $$aKnoxville :$$bUniversity of Tennessee Press,$$cc2011. 000438351 300__ $$a1 online resource (xxv, 406 p.) 000438351 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000438351 50500 $$tPhillis Wheatley's Dido: an analysis of "An hymn to humanity. To S.P.G. Esq." /$$rMaureen Anderson --$$tI remember mama: honoring the goddess-mother with denouncing the slaveowner-god in Phillis Wheatley's poetry /$$rDevona Mallory --$$tThe interaction of the classical traditions of literature and politics in the world of Phillis Wheatley /$$rKaren Lerner Dovell --$$tThe Trojan horse: classics, memory, transformation, and Afric ambition in Poems on various subjects, religious and moral /$$rEric Ashley Hairston --$$tEmpowerment through classicism in Phillis Wheatley's "ode to Neptune" /$$rPatrick Moseley --$$tPhillis Wheatley's use of the Georgic /$$rEric D. Lamore --$$tWorks of wonder, wondering eyes, and the wondrous poet: the use of wonder in Phillis Wheatley's marvelous poetics /$$rJennifer Billingsley --$$tQueering Phillis Wheatley /$$rTom O. McCulley --$$tMarketing a sable muse: Phillis Wheatley and the antebellum press /$$rJennifer Rene Young --$$tPhillis Wheatley; the consensual blackness of early African American writing /$$rPhillip M. Richards --$$tThe pan-African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters /$$rBabacar M'Baye --$$tAn untangled web: mapping Phillis Wheatley's network of support in American and Great Britain /$$rZach Petrea --$$tPhillis Wheatley's theoretics of the imagination: an untold chapter in the history of early American literary aesthetics /$$rJohn C. Shields --$$tTo "pursue th' unbodied mind": Phillis Wheatley and the raced body in early America /$$rMary McAleer Balkun. 000438351 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000438351 520__ $$aThe 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, let alone influence Romantic-period giants like Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson once declared that "the compositions published under her name are below dignity of criticism." 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. In these never-before-published essays, fourteen prominent Wheatley scholars consider her work from a variety of angles, affirming her rise into the first rank of American writers. The pieces in the first section show that perhaps the most substantial measure of Wheatley's multilayered texts resides in her deft handling of classical materials. The contributors consider Wheatley's references to Virgil's Aeneid and Georgics and to the feminine figure Dido as well as her subversive critique of white readers attracted to her adaptation of familiar classics. They also discuss Wheatley's use of the Homeric Trojan horse and eighteenth-century verse to mask her ambitions for freedom and her treatment of the classics as political tools. Engaging Wheatley's multilayered texts with innovative approaches, the essays in the second section recontextualize her rich manuscripts and demonstrate how her late-eighteenth-century works remain both current and timeless. They ponder Wheatley's verse within the framework of queer theory, the concepts of political theorist Hannah Arendt, rhetoric, African studies, eighteenth-century "salon culture," and the theoretics of imagination. Together, these essays reveal the depth of Phillis Wheatley's literary achievement and present concrete evidence that her extant oeuvre merits still further scrutiny 000438351 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000438351 60010 $$aWheatley, Phillis,$$d1753-1784$$xCriticism and interpretation. 000438351 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$xAfrican American authors$$xHistory and criticism. 000438351 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000438351 7001_ $$aShields, John C.,$$d1944- 000438351 7001_ $$aLamore, Eric D. 000438351 77608 $$iPrint version:$$tNew essays on Phillis Wheatley.$$b1st ed.$$dKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011$$z9781572337268$$w(DLC) 2011001958$$w(OCoLC)654314711 000438351 8520_ $$bacq 000438351 85280 $$bebk$$hProquest Ebook Central 000438351 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=735428$$zOnline Access 000438351 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:438351$$pGLOBAL_SET 000438351 980__ $$aEBOOK 000438351 980__ $$aBIB 000438351 982__ $$aEbook 000438351 983__ $$aOnline