Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Chapter 1. Making “Darkness Visible” 1
5. Chapter 2. Phillis Wheatley’s Miltonic Journeys in Poems on Various Subjects 57
6. Chapter 3. Black Audio-Visionaries and the Rise of Miltonic Influence in Colonial America and the Early Republic 95
7. Chapter 4. Of Might and Men 149
8. Chapter 5. Breaking New Grounds with Milton in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Moses: A Story of the Nile 189
9. Chapter 6. Miltonic Soundscapes in Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice from the South 229
10. Chapter 7. Returning to Milton’s Hell with Weapons of Perfect Passivity in Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio 279
11. Epilogue 327
12. Notes 335
13. Bibliography 361
14. Index 379