| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Influence.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
American literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilburn, Reginald A., 1966- Preaching the gospel of black revolt. Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, 2014 (DLC) 2013039610 |
| ISBN |
9780820705972 (electronic book) |
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0820705977 (electronic book) |
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9780820704715 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0820704717 |
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