Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt - Appropriating Milton in Early African American Literature - Reginald A. Wilburn

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In this comparative and hybrid study, Reginald A. Wilburn offers the first scholarly work to theorize African American authors'' rebellious appropriations of Milton and his canon. Wilburn engages African Americans'' transatlantic negotiations with perhaps the preeminent freedom writer in the English tradition.Preaching the Gospel of Black Revolt contends that early African American authors appropriated and remastered Milton by completing and complicating England''s epic poet of liberty with the intertextual..