Bibliograph

Preaching the gospel of black revolt, appropriating Milton in early African American literature, Reginald A. Wilburn

Type

Label

Preaching the gospel of black revolt, appropriating Milton in early African American literature, Reginald A. Wilburn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-378) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Preaching the gospel of black revolt

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

865157893

Responsibility statement

Reginald A. Wilburn

Series statement

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

Sub title

appropriating Milton in early African American literature

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Making "darkness visible": Milton and early African American literature -- Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic journeys in poems on various subjects -- Black audio-visionaries and the rise of Miltonic influence in colonial America and the Early Republic -- Of might and men: Milton, Frederick Douglass and resistant masculinity as existential geography -- Breaking new grounds with Milton in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Moses: a story of the Nile -- Miltonic soundscapes in Anna Julia Cooper's A voice from the South -- Returning to Milton's hell with weapons of "perfect passivity" in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in imperio -- Epilogue. Malcolm X, Paradise lost, and the twentieth century infernal reader

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