All beautiful in woe: Gender, nation, and Phillis Wheatley's niobe

Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture

Volumn 37, Issue , 2008, Pages 233-258

  Thorn, Jennifer ^a  

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2. Henry Louis Gates, "Introduction," "Race, " Writing, and Difference, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Chicago: University. of Chicago Press, 1986), 1-20
3. Gates, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), especially chapter 4, "The Trope of the Talking Book"
4. Gates, "Critical Remarks," in Anatomy of Racism, ed. David Theo Goldberg (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1990), 319-29
5. Kirstin Wilcox has compared the proposed Boston edition to the actual London edition in order to argue that revisions and additions that characterize the latter enabled the repackaging of "[t]he local prodigy of Boston" as "an accomplished woman of letters" ("The Body into Print: Marketing Phillis Wheatley," American Literature 71. 1 [March 1999]: 18)
6. Cited in George S. Brookes, Friend Anthony Benezet (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1937), 389-90
7. Cited in Reinhold, Classica Americana, 122
8. John Trumbull, The Satiric Poems of John Trumbull, ed. Edwin T. Bowden (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962), 35, 81
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10. Lessons for Lovers, 13
11. For readings of Wheatley's use of sentimentalism as legitimating of her rhetorical authority, see Annie Finch, "Phillis Wheatley and the Sentimental Tradition," Romanticism on the Net 29-30, February-May 2003
12. and Astrid Franke, "Phillis Wheatley, Melancholy Muse," New England Quarterly 77 (2004): 224-51
13. David Bjelajac, American Art: A Cultural History (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005), 76, 77
14. cited in Suzanne Gippert, Joseph Addison's Ovid: An Adaptation of the Metamorphoses in the Augustan Age of British Literature (Sankt Augustin: Gardez Verlag, 2003), 10
15. David Solkin, Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction (London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1982), 12-13
16. and John Barrell, The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), 340-41
17. Solkin, Richard Wilson, 16
18. Rather than grouping "To Maecenas" with Wheatley's classicist poems, Paula Bennett places it within a group of poems that assert "Wheatley's project of self-redemption-that is, her legitimation of her right to practice her vocation" ("Phillis Wheatley's Vocation and the Paradox of the 'Afric Muse,'" PMLA 113. 1 [1998]), 64
19. John C. Shields, ed., The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 250
20. Peter M. Coviello, "Agonizing Affection: Affect and Nation in Early America." Early American Literature 37. 3 (2002): 440
21. William D. Piersen, Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), 36
22. Jacqueline Jones, "Race, Sex, and Self-Evident Truths: The Status of Slave Women during the Era of the American Revolution," in Women in the Age of the American Revolution, ed. Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989), 315
23. Edgar McManus, Black Bondage in the North (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2002), 38
24. Continental Journal (Boston), 1, 8 March 1781, cited in McManus, Black Bondage, 38
25. Boston Gazette, 25 June 1754
26. Boston Newsletter, 26 June 1760
27. Cited in McManus, Black Bondage, 37-38
28. Julie Kipp, Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
29. June Jordan, "The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America, or Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley," in On Call: Political Essays (Boston: South End Press, 1985), 92, 90-91
30. Jordan, "The Difficult Miracle," 93, 92
31. Jordan, "The Difficult Miracle," 92
32. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2003), 84
33. Gates, Trials, 6-7
34. Sharon M. Harris, ed., American Women Writers to 1800 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 311