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Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation

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Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Liberation( )
Author: Shields, John C.
ISBN:978-1-57233-499-1
Publication Date:Jun 2008
Publisher:University of Tennessee Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $37.95
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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...
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Shields, John C. (Author)
John C. Shields is professor of English at Illinois State University. He is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley, has edited several numbers of Style, and has served as an advisory editor to The Oxford Companion to African American Literature and to the twenty-three-volume American National Biography. His articles have appeared in American Literature, Studies in Philology, Studies in Short Fiction, African American Review, and other publications.

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