Preaching the gospel of black revolt [electronic resource] : appropriating Milton in early African American literature / Reginald A. Wilburn.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780820705972
- PS153.N5 W458 2014
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.
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