Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt: Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1. Making “Darkness Visible”: Milton and Early African American Literature 1 Chapter 2. Phillis Wheatley’s Miltonic Journeys in Poems on Various Subjects 57 Chapter 3. Black Audio-Visionaries and the Rise of Miltonic Influence in Colonial America and the Early Republic 95 Chapter 4. Of Might and Men: Milton, Frederick Douglass, and Resistant Masculinity as Existential Geography 149 Chapter 5. Breaking New Grounds with Milton in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Moses: A Story of the Nile 189 Chapter 6. Miltonic Soundscapes in Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice from the South 229 Chapter 7. Returning to Milton’s Hell with Weapons of Perfect Passivity in Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio 279 Epilogue. Malcolm X, Paradise Lost, and the Twentieth Century Infernal Reader 327 Notes 335 Bibliography 361 Index 379 ...