...Figure 19.1 Compare the size and heft of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London: A. Bell, 1773), and the copy of Paradise Lost Wheatley owned, printed in Glasgow by Foulis in 1770. Courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard...

...On July 11, 1761, Phillis Wheatley arrived in Boston as a young child slave and was raised by the family of her purchaser, John Wheatley. At the age of 12, Wheatley published her first poem in a Newport, Rhode Island, newspaper. In 1773, her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral...

...This chapter recalls Phillis Wheatley's metalyrical creation of a poetics of personal abstraction in the late eighteenth century. The chapter focuses on the poem that became “On Recollection,” in order to consider the many ways in which Wheatley's poetics saw the threat of Romantic apostrophe...

...This chapter examines the dynamic and affective quality of Phillis Wheatley’s extant letters to Obour Tanner between 1772 and 1779. It argues for a reading of their letters that examines the affective possibilities and religious experiences of Black women, living in New England during...

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... Carter Farnum, in which she incorporates verse by Phillis Wheatley. It then considers the needleworks of three makers: an embroidered picture made by the white Ann Leap in which she depicts Indigenous figures; a textual sampler created by African American Mary D’Silver, who excerpts verse from Anna...

... as an aesthetic movement integral to the aesthetic shifts and literary cultures of the transatlantic eighteenth century. Through one brief test case, Ralph Erskine’s bestselling poem Gospel Sonnets and two women poets who directly responded to it, Sarah Moorhead and Phillis Wheatley Peters...

... interests that move through that same work. The author’s aestheticized way of writing about William Bartram, Phillis Wheatley, Leonora Sansay, and others, while faithful to the historical record, emphasizes and makes much of details in their works that are strange and remain unsolved and untreated...

...Picturing Political Power tracks the ways that women gradually transformed public images of gender and political power. The story begins with portraits of Phillis Wheatley, Martha Washington, and Mary Wollstonecraft in late eighteenth-century America. These women secured power with the help of men...

...This chapter presents a selection of Phillis Wheatley's poems. Wheatley was kidnapped from an unknown location in Africa, and then forced on board a slave ship and sold to the Boston merchant John Wheatley and his wife, Susannah, in 1761. The Wheatleys treated Phillis like a daughter, as opposed...

..., and these adjustments were especially significant for poetry, literature’s nearest predecessor. In order to grasp the changes wrought in poetry by its being made a genre within literature, the chapter takes up the ways in which Phillis Wheatley’s authorial formation within eighteenth-century cultures of letters...

... in the Bible, colonial readers would have understood his invocation of natural law and a Creator, in the Declaration of Independence, as language justifying the colonial rebellion by way of Genesis. Phillis Wheatley, Prince Hall, and abolitionist lawyers for Quock Walker similarly seized on Adam’s creation...

... Gay Lemuel Haynes Israel Holly John Leland Jonathan Mayhew Phillis Wheatley If traditional theology of many sorts was maintained with surprising consistency in the era of the America Revolution, it is also true that significant theological innovation was taking place. Liberal Congregationalists...

...This introduction details a reading of #blacklivesmatter as a primer for looking closely at the works of Phillis Wheatley, James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, John Marrant, and David Walker. Despite the seemingly ahistorical quality of this hashtag, This twenty-first-century response—when read...

...This chapter examines the resonances of the Stono rebels’ calls of liberty in African American literature, focusing on the human rights claims made by early African American writers such as Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Omar ibn Said, Olaudah Equiano, Martin Delany, Prince Hall, and Frederick...

... to the body’s outsides and, second, for offering a decentered account of systems, including that of the person. The chapter analyzes the works of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American poet, whose poems evoke colonial natural history and political events, early national pageantry, and accounts...

... their European counterparts. In this context, Phillis Wheatley’s poem “Niobe In Distress of Her Children” receives close attention for how it anticipates and surpasses Walter Benjamin’s and Immanuel Kant’s explorations of imperial force. Wheatley rethinks Niobe as a figure who rejects the violence and guilt...

...This chapter describes the friendship, concentrating on the sentimentalism of the period and its relation to a notion of ‘imperial recoil’. It also evaluates the place of friendship in the poetics of Phillis Wheatley and the state imagining of Sarah Scott. The protean vocabulary of friendship...

..., Phillis Wheatley, and Mary Wollstonecraft. More specifically, it assesses the claim by these three women that the lack of any clear transition between dependent girlhood and independent womanhood served as a fundamental barrier to sexual equality. It also considers their emphasis on the maturation...

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