TY - BOOK AU - Wilburn,Reginald A. ED - Project Muse. TI - Preaching the gospel of black revolt: appropriating Milton in early African American literature SN - 9780820705972 AV - PS153.N5 W458 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Pittsburgh, Pa. PB - Duquesne University Press KW - Milton, John, KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 18th century KW - African American authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820705972/ ER -