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3 Personification: On Phillis Wheatley’s Memory

Phillis’s Wake
© 2023 Princeton University Press, Princeton

© 2023 Princeton University Press, Princeton

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. List of Illustrations xi
  4. A Note on Names xiii
  5. Preface: Mnemosyne 1
  6. 1 What History Does to Us 13
  7. 2 Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism: Pierpont, Douglass, Whitfield—and Horton 64
  8. 3 Personification: On Phillis Wheatley’s Memory 102
  9. 4 Prosody: William Cullen Bryant and the White Romantic Lyric 139
  10. 5 The Poetess: Frances Ellen Watkins, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 190
  11. Coda: The Prophecy 232
  12. Acknowledgments 243
  13. Notes 247
  14. Selected Bibliography 275
  15. Index 291
Before Modernism
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691233116-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents ix
  3. List of Illustrations xi
  4. A Note on Names xiii
  5. Preface: Mnemosyne 1
  6. 1 What History Does to Us 13
  7. 2 Apostrophe, Animation, and Racism: Pierpont, Douglass, Whitfield—and Horton 64
  8. 3 Personification: On Phillis Wheatley’s Memory 102
  9. 4 Prosody: William Cullen Bryant and the White Romantic Lyric 139
  10. 5 The Poetess: Frances Ellen Watkins, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 190
  11. Coda: The Prophecy 232
  12. Acknowledgments 243
  13. Notes 247
  14. Selected Bibliography 275
  15. Index 291
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