Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Carretta, Vincent
Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Carretta, Vincent

Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person...
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Author: Vincent Carretta
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Language: English
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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Carretta, Vincent

Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

$61.03
Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Carretta, Vincent

Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage

$61.03
Author: Vincent Carretta
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the second woman--of any race or background-- to do so in America. Written in Boston while she was just a teenager, and when she was still a slave, Wheatley's work was an international sensation. In Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta offers the first full-length biography of a figure whose origins and later life have remained shadowy despite her iconic status.

A scholar with extensive knowledge of transatlantic literature and history, Carretta uncovers new details about Wheatley's origins, her upbringing, and how she gained freedom. Carretta solves the mystery of John Peters, correcting the record of when he and Wheatley married and revealing what became of him after her death. Assessing Wheatley's entire body of work, Carretta discusses the likely role she played in the production, market­ing, and distribution of her writing. Wheatley developed a remarkable transatlantic network that transcended racial, class, political, religious, and geographical boundaries. Carretta reconstructs that network and sheds new light on her religious and political identities. In the course of his research he discovered the earliest poem attributable to Wheatley and has included it and other unpublished poems in the biography.

Carretta relocates Wheatley from the margins to the center of her eighteenth-century transatlantic world, revealing the fascinating life of a woman who rose from the indignity of enslavement to earn wide recognition, only to die in obscurity a few years later.

Author: Vincent Carretta
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 02/15/2014
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780820346649

About the Author
VINCENT CARRETTA is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author or editor of more than ten books, including scholarly editions of the writings of Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Ignatius Sancho, and Ottobah Cugoano. His most recent books are Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man, winner of the Annibel Jenkins Prize, and The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary, coedited with Ty M. Reese (both Georgia).
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