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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Carretta, Vincent. Phillis Wheatley. Athens ; London : The University of Georgia Press, 2014 (OCoLC)892063097 |
Named Person: | Phillis Wheatley; Phillis Wheatley |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Vincent Carretta |
ISBN: | 9780820347042 0820347043 0820346640 9780820346649 |
OCLC Number: | 1050437041 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map |
Details: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Contents: | "On being brought from Africa to America" -- "Thoughts on the works of Providence" -- "I prefer the verse" -- "A wonder of the age indeed!" -- "A farewell to America" -- "Now upon my own footing" -- "The uncertain duration of all things temporal." |
Responsibility: | Vincent Carretta. |
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"This is a satisfying study of the 'elusive' Wheatley, fleshed out with succinct, discerning readings of the body of her work. . . . Especially noteworthy is the book's attentiveness to Wheatley's involvement in the production and promotion of her book, the contemporary responses to her work, and an unprecedented account of her marriage to the debt-ridden John Peters, whose death forced her into domestic service." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Surprisingly the first full biography . . . Carretta presents his significant research in this comprehensive study of Wheatley. He uncovered her previously unknown earliest writings in the personal papers of a contemporary. Using court documents about her husband, John Peters, Carretta found new information about Wheatley's postemancipation life in Boston and London, years about which scholars still know very little. He also provides fresh analysis of Wheatley's poetry and gives the reader a glimpse into the lives of both free and enslaved blacks in Colonial New England." - Library Journal Read more...


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