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Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shields, John C., 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784 > Influence.
Wheatley, Phillis, > 1753-1784 > Criticism and interpretation.
Romanticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Before Wheatley: the imagination from Plato to Bruno
  • Before Wheatley: the imagination from Bruno to William Billings
  • Wheatley's "long poem" and subsequent considerations
  • After Wheatley: in England, France, and Germany, excluding Kant
  • Kant and Wheatley
  • Wheatley and Coleridge
  • Concluding remarks: is Wheatley the progenetrix of Romanticism?
  • Postscript: what remains to be done.