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Phillis Wheatley's Miltonic Poetics

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Paula Loscocco

    1. Lehman College, CUNY, USA

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Prologue: “The Humble Afric Muse’s Seat”

    • Paula Loscocco
    Pages 1-5

  3. Conspiracy Theory: “Britannia’s Distant Shore”

    • Paula Loscocco
    Pages 6-43

  4. Authority and Challenge: “Where Shall a Sov’reign Remedy Be Found?”

    • Paula Loscocco
    Pages 44-76

  5. Wheatley’s Fanciful Sublime: “What Songs Should Rise!”

    • Paula Loscocco
    Pages 77-132

  6. Epilogue

    • Paula Loscocco
    Pages 133-136

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 137-154
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About this book

Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women.

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“Paula Loscocco’s Phillis Wheatley’s Miltonic Poetics is a thoughtful and well-argued addition to this growing body of criticism, considering both the historical and cultural moment in which Wheatley wrote as well as the poems’ structures, imagery, and allusions, specifically as an engagement with the poetry of John Milton.” (Mary McAleer Balkun, TSWL Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 35 (1), 2016)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Lehman College, CUNY, USA

    Paula Loscocco

About the author

Paula Loscocco is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lehman College, CUNY, USA.

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