A Black Tory Abolitionist in Early America: Phillis Wheatley's Republican Poetics.
The first African-American to publish a book, Phillis Wheatley has long been disparaged, by eighteenth-century slave owners and twentieth-century leftists alike, as 'a third rate imitation of Alexander Pope'. No one, however, seems to have taken very seriously what the obvious presence of Pope in Wh...
| Publicado en: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 371 - 389 |
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