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Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation: Backgrounds and Contexts
John C. Shields
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Description for Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation: Backgrounds and Contexts
Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation is a groundbreaking scholarly study of one of America_s most important and most controversial writers. Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first African American to publish a book on any subject in the new country, and America_s second woman to do so. There is probably no other American writer who has produced such critical controversy as Phillis Wheatley. In this new volume, John C. Shields-one of the foremost scholars of Wheatley- demonstrates that much of the negative response to her writings has been based on false assumptions and myths about her and her ... Read more
Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation is a groundbreaking scholarly study of one of America_s most important and most controversial writers. Wheatley (1753-1784) was the first African American to publish a book on any subject in the new country, and America_s second woman to do so. There is probably no other American writer who has produced such critical controversy as Phillis Wheatley. In this new volume, John C. Shields-one of the foremost scholars of Wheatley- demonstrates that much of the negative response to her writings has been based on false assumptions and myths about her and her ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781572334991
SKU
V9781572334991
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