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The Cambridge Introduction to Phillis Wheatley Peters

Av Vincent Carretta

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In 1773 Phillis Wheatley Peters became the first person of African descent to publish a book, when she was barely twenty years old, and still enslaved. Her book made her the earliest international celebrity of African descent, just a dozen years after she had been brought from Africa to America. She became the unofficial poet laureate of the American Revolution, only to die in poverty and relative obscurity in 1784. Recent biographical discoveries related to John Peters and Phillis Wheatley's marriage to him in 1778 have led to significant reassessments of her life and character. As the Cambridge Introduction to Phillis Wheatley Peters demonstrates, she has subsequently become recognized as a pioneer of American and African American literature. Her standing as a transnational literary figure is increasingly appreciated as criticism of her writings has become more sophisticated.
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Vincent Carretta is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. He has published more than 100 articles and reviews on a range of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century subjects, particularly in relation to the first generation of authors of African descent. His recent publications include: The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary (2010), co-edited with Ty M. Reese; an edition of Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African (2015); Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (1995; rev. eds. 2003, 2020); Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (2005; rev. ed. 2022); Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (2011, rev. eds. 2014, 2023); an edition of The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters (2019; rev. ed. 2024).

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