Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic Poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781137474773
Subjects: Milton, john, 1608-1674; Wheatley, phillis, 1753-1784; American literature, african american authors, history and criticism
Description: "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."