Preaching the gospel of black revolt
Subtitle: appropriating Milton in early African American literature
By: Reginald A. Wilburn
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820704715
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Influence; African American authors
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making "darkness visible": Milton and early African American literature; title: Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic journeys in poems on various subjects; title: Black audio-visionaries and the rise of Miltonic influence in colonial America and the Early Republic; title: Of might and men: Milton, Frederick Douglass and resistant masculinity as existential geography; title: Breaking new grounds with Milton in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Moses: a story of the Nile; title: Miltonic soundscapes in Anna Julia Cooper's  A voice from the South; title: Returning to Milton's hell with weapons of "perfect passivity" in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in imperio; title: Epilogue. Malcolm X, Paradise lost, and the twentieth century infernal reader.