New essays on Phillis Wheatley

Examining new manifestations of classicism in the poetics of Phillis Wheatley

Placing Phillis Wheatley in newly applied historical contexts.

Phillis Wheatley's Dido: an analysis of "An hymn to humanity. To S.P.G. Esq." / Maureen Anderson

I remember mama: honoring the goddess-mother with denouncing the slaveowner-god in Phillis Wheatley's poetry / Devona Mallory

The interaction of the classical traditions of literature and politics in the world of Phillis Wheatley / Karen Lerner Dovell

The Trojan horse: classics, memory, transformation, and Afric ambition in Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / Eric Ashley Hairston

Empowerment through classicism in Phillis Wheatley's "ode to Neptune" / Patrick Moseley

Phillis Wheatley's use of the Georgic / Eric D. Lamore

Works of wonder, wondering eyes, and the wondrous poet: the use of wonder in Phillis Wheatley's marvelous poetics / Jennifer Billingsley

Queering Phillis Wheatley / Tom O. McCulley

Marketing a sable muse: Phillis Wheatley and the antebellum press / Jennifer Rene Young

Phillis Wheatley; the consensual blackness of early African American writing / Phillip M. Richards

The pan-African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters / Babacar M'Baye

An untangled web: mapping Phillis Wheatley's network of support in American and Great Britain / Zach Petrea

Phillis Wheatley's theoretics of the imagination: an untold chapter in the history of early American literary aesthetics / John C. Shields

To "pursue th' unbodied mind": Phillis Wheatley and the raced body in early America / Mary McAleer Balkun.

pt. 1. Examining new manifestations of classicism in the poetics of Phillis Wheatley

pt. 2. Placing Phillis Wheatley in newly applied historical contexts.