Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics
By: John C. Shields.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781572337053
Subjects: Wheatley, Phillis, -- 1753-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation; Wheatley, Phillis, -- 1753-1784 -- Influence; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Romanticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before Wheatley: the imagination from Plato to Bruno; title: Before Wheatley: the imagination from Bruno to William Billings; title: Wheatley's "long poem" and subsequent considerations; title: After Wheatley: in England, France, and Germany, excluding Kant; title: Kant and Wheatley; title: Wheatley and Coleridge; title: Concluding remarks: is Wheatley the progenetrix of romanticism?; title: Postscript: what remains to be done.