Preaching the gospel of black revolt
Wilburn, Reginald A., 1966-
Preaching the gospel of black revolt appropriating Milton in early African American literature / [electronic resource] : Reginald A. Wilburn. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780820705972
Milton, John, 1608-1674 --Influence.
American literature--History and criticism--19th century
American literature--History and criticism--18th century
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / W458 2014
Preaching the gospel of black revolt appropriating Milton in early African American literature / [electronic resource] : Reginald A. Wilburn. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780820705972
Milton, John, 1608-1674 --Influence.
American literature--History and criticism--19th century
American literature--History and criticism--18th century
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.N5 / W458 2014