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Phillis Wheatley: Selected Bibliography

"Special Issue: The Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, November 4-7, 1973." Jackson State Review 6 1 (1974): 1-107. Print.

"Little-Known Documents [Special Section]." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 125 3 (2010): 795-815. Print.

Adee, et al. "Writing Africa under the Shadow of Slavery: Quaque, Wheatley, and Crowther." Research in African Literatures 40 4 (2009): 1-24. Print.

Anderson, Maureen. "Phillis Wheatley's Dido: An Analysis of 'an Hymn to Humanity. To S.P.G. Esq.'." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Applegate, Anne. "Phillis Wheatley: Her Critics and Her Contribution." Negro American Literature Forum 9 4 (1975): 123-26. Print.

Bacon, Martha. Puritan Promenade. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. Print.

Balkun, Mary McAleer. "Phillis Wheatley's Construction of Otherness and the Rhetoric of Performed Ideology." African American Review 36 1 (2002): 121-35. Print.

---. "To 'Pursue Th' Unbodied Mind': Phillis Wheatley and the Raced Body in Early America." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Bassard, Katherine Clay. Spiritual Interrogations: Conversion, Community and Authorship in the Writings of Phillis Wheatley, Ann Plato, Jarena Lee, and Rebecca Cox Jackson. 1994. Print.

Baym, Nina. "Revising the Legacy of 1970s Feminist Criticism." Constance Fenimore Woolson's Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Brehn, Victoria. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 2001. 255 pp. Print.

Bennett, Paula. "Phillis Wheatley's Vocation and the Paradox of the 'Afric Muse'." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 113 1 (1998): 64-76. Print.

Bernier, Celeste-Marie. "'Iron Arguments': Spectacle, Rhetoric and the Slave Body in New England and British Antislavery Oratory." European Journal of American Culture 26 1 (2007): 57-78. Print.

Bilbro, Jeffrey. "Who Are Lost and How They're Found: Redemption and Theodicy in Wheatley, Newton, and Cowper." Early American Literature 47 3 (2012): 561-89. Print.

Billingsley, Jennifer. "Works of Wonder, Wondering Eyes, and the Wondrous Poet: The Use of Wonder in Phillis Wheatley's Marvelous Poetics." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Birkle, Carmen. "Border Crossing and Identity Creation in Phillis Wheatley's Poetry." American Studies: A Monograph Series (Amstudies). Ed. Hebel, Udo J. Heidelberg, Germany: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1999. ix, 475 pp. Print.

Black, Daniel P. "Literary Subterfuge: Early African American Writing and the Trope of the Mask." CLA Journal 48 4 (2005): 387-403. Print.

Bly, Antonio T. "Wheatley's 'to the University of Cambridge, in New-England'." Explicator 55 4 (1997): 205-08. Print.

---. "Wheatley's 'on the Affray in King Street'." Explicator 56 4 (1998): 177-80. Print.

---. "Wheatley's 'on the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age'." Explicator 58 1 (1999): 10-13. Print.

---. "'Pretends He Can Read': Runaways and Literacy in Colonial America, 1730-1776." Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6 2 (2008): 261-94. Print.

Bomarito, Jessica, Jeffrey W. Hunter, and Amy Hudock. Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 2004. Print.

Boren, Mark Edelman. "A Fiery Furnace and a Sugar Train: Metaphors That Challenge the Legacy of Phillis Wheatley's 'on Being Brought from Africa to America'." CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 67 1 (2004): 38-56. Print.

Bridenbaugh, Carl. "The Earliest-Published Poem of Phillis Wheatley." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 42 4 (1969): 583-84. Print.

Brooks, Joanna. "Our Phillis, Ourselves." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 82 1 (2010): 1-28. Print.

Burke, Helen. "Problematizing American Dissent: The Subject of Phillis Wheatley." Suny Series in American Literature. Eds. Colatrella, Carol and Joseph Alkana. Albany: State U of New York P, 1994. xxi, 252 pp. Print.

Burke, Helen M. "The Rhetoric and Politics of Marginality: The Subject of Phillis Wheatley." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 10 1 (1991): 31-45. Print.

Burroughs, Margaret G. "Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together?" Jackson State Review 6 1 (1974): 61-73. Print.

Bynum, Tara. 'the Saving Change': New Birth and Conversion in Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature. 2009. Print.

Carretta, Vincent. "Phillis Wheatley, the Mansfield Decision of 1772, and the Choice of Identity." Early American Literature and Culture through the American Renaissance (Ealcar). Eds. Schmidt, Klaus H. and Fritz Fleischman. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2000. ix, 599 pp. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley's First Effort." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 125 3 (2010): 795-97. Print.

---. Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 2011. Print.

Cavaioli, Frank J. "Phillis Wheatley and Paul Laurence Dunbar Dicover Christopher Columbus." VIA: Voices in Italian Americana 10 1 (1999): 47-55. Print.

Chiles, Katy L. "Becoming Colored in Occom and Wheatley's Early America." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123 5 (2008): 1398-417, 811-812. Print.

Choucair, Mona M. "Phillis Wheatley (1754-1784)." African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Nelson, Emmanuel S. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. xvi, 525 pp. Print.

Cima, Gay Gibson. "Black and Unmarked: Phillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren, and the Limits of Strategic Anonymity." Theatre Journal 52 4 (2000): 465-95. Print.

Clarke, Carol Rose. Crossings, Crosses, the Whispering Womb and Daughters under the Drum: The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley and Selected Caribbean Women Writers, with Implications for a Pluralistic Pedagogy. 2001. Print.

Collins, Terence. "Phillis Wheatley: The Dark Side of the Poetry." Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture 36 1 (1975): 78-88. Print.

Collins-Sibley, G. Michelle. "Who Can Speak? Authority and Authenticity in Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatley." Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History 5 3 (2004): [48 paragraphs]. Print.

Constantakis, Sara. Poetry for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry, Volume 36. Poetry for Students (Poetry for Students). Detroit, MI: Gale, 2010. Print.

Cook, William W., and James Tatum. African American Writers and Classical Tradition. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2010. Print.

Costanzo, Angelo. "Three Black Poets in Eighteenth Century America." SSC Review (1973): 89-101. Print.

Coviello, Peter. "Agonizing Affection: Affect and Nation in Early America." Early American Literature 37 3 (2002): 439-68. Print.

Cruz, Diana Victoria. A Habit of Translation: Race and Aesthetics in the Poetry of Rita Dove, Phillis Wheatley and Melvin B. Tolson. 2003. Print.

Daly, Robert. "Powers of Humility and the Presence of Readers in Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality (Spas). Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1993. 254 pp. Print.

Davis, Arthur P. "Personal Elements in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley." Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture 14 (1953): 191-98. Print.

De Lancey, Frenzella E. "Teaching Four African American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez." Teaching the New English (Tne). Ed. Wisker, Gina. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xii, 220 pp. Print.

Dovell, Karen Lerner. 'When Plato Was a Certainty-': Classical Tradition and Difference in Works by Phillis Wheatley, Margaret Fuller, and Emily Dickinson. 2004. Print.

---. "The Interaction of the Classical Traditions of Literature and Politics in the Work of Phillis Wheatley." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Ellison, Julie. "The Politics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility." Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Eds. Wilson, Carol Shiner and Joel Haefner. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1994. viii, 329 pp. Print.

Elrod, Eileen Razzari. "Phillis Wheatley's Abolitionist Text: The 1834 Edition." Imagining Transatlantic Slavery. Eds. Kaplan, Cora and John Oldfield. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xii, 209 pp. Print.

Engberg, Kathrynn Grace Seidler. The Right to Write: Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley. 2007. Print.

Ennis, Daniel J. "Poetry and American Revolutionary Identity: The Case of Phillis Wheatley and John Paul Jones." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 31 (2002): 85-98. Print.

Erkkila, Betsy. "Revolutionary Women." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 6 2 (1987): 189-223. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution." A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America. Ed. Shuffelton, Frank. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. viii, 286 pp. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution." Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies. Ed. Carruth, Mary C. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2006. xxii, 328 pp. Print.

Fabre, Michel. "French." Faculte Des Lettres Et Sciences Humaines De L'universite De Clermont-Ferrand Ii. Eds. Royot, Daniel and Maurice Gonnaud. Clermont-Ferrand: Assn. pour les Pubs. de la Faculte des Lett. et Sciences Humaines, 1977. 213 pp. Print.

Felker, Christopher. "'the Tongues of the Learned Are Insufficient': Phillis Wheatley, Publishing Objectives, and Personal Liberty." Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Grlh). Ed. Cohen, Philip. New York, NY: Garland, 1997. xxxiv, 319 pp. Print.

Felker, Christopher D. "'the Tongues of the Learned Are Insufficient': Phillis Wheatley: Publishing Objectives, and Personal Liberty." Resources for American Literary Study 20 2 (1994): 149-79. Print.

Finch, Annie. "Phillis Wheatley and the Sentimental Tradition." Romanticism on the Net: An Electronic Journal Devoted to Romantic Studies 29-30 (2003): 18 paragraphs. Print.

Flanzbaum, Hilene. "Unprecedented Liberties: Re-Reading Phillis Wheatley." MELUS 18 3 (1993): 71-81. Print.

Foster, Frances Smith. "Continuities with the Past/Blueprints for the Future: Scholarly, Professional, and Activist Strategies for the New Century." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19 1 (2002): 10-13. Print.

Francescato, Simone. "Lost Voices of the Trans-Atlantic Journey: Three Texts by John Berryman, Robert Hayden and J. M. Coetzee." 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies 14 (2004): (no pagination). Print.

Franke, Astrid. "Phillis Wheatley, Melancholy Muse." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 77 2 (2004): 224-51. Print.

Gates, Henry Louis. "[Phillis Wheatley and the Nature of the Negro]." Crit. Essays on Amer. Lit. Ed. Robinson, William H. Boston: Hall, 1982. xii, 236 pp. Print.

---. "From Wheatley to Douglass: The Politics of Displacement." Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (Csalc). Ed. Sundquist, Eric J. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. 295 pp. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley on Trial: In 1772, a Slave Girl Had to Prove She Was a Poet. She's Had to Do So Ever Since." New Yorker 78 43 (2003): 82-87. Print.

---. The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers. New York, NY: Basic Civitas, 2003. Print.

Giddings, Paula. "Critical Evaluation of Phillis Wheatley." Jackson State Review 6 1 (1974): 74-81. Print.

Grimsted, David. "Anglo-American Racism and Phillis Wheatley's 'Sable Veil,' 'Length'ned Chain,' and 'Knitted Heart'." Women in the Age of the American Revolution. Eds. Hoffman, Ronald, Peter J. Albert and Linda K. Kerber. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1989. ix, 516 pp. Print.

Guruswamy, Rosemary Fithian. "'Thou Hast the Holy Word': Jupiter Hammon's 'Regards' to Phillis Wheatley." Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic. Eds. Carretta, Vincent and Philip Gould. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2001. 272 pp. Print.

Hairston, Eric Ashley. "The Trojan Horse: Classics, Memory, Transformation, and Afric Ambition in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Halbert, Harold William. Hybrid Motivations: Language Acquisition and the Construction of Identity in the Slave Texts of Wheatley, Sanco, Equiano, and Cugoano. 2001. Print.

Harris, Jennifer. "Aprons and Pearls: Images of Phillis Wheatley." Resources for American Literary Study 34 (2009): 33-45. Print.

Harris, Will. "Phillis Wheatley, Diaspora Subjectivity, and the African American Canon." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 33 3 (2008): 29-43. Print.

Harris, Willie James. Phyllis Wheatley: Canon and 'Orature'. 1998. Print.

Hayden, Lucy K. "Classical Tidings from the Afric Muse: Phillis Wheatley's Use of Greek and Roman Mythology." College Language Association Journal 35 4 (1992): 432-47. Print.

Henry, Lauren. "Sunshine and Shady Groves: What Blake's 'Little Black Boy' Learned from African Writers." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 29 1 (1995): 4-11. Print.

---. "'Sunshine and Shady Groves': What Blake's 'Little Black Boy' Learned from African Writers." Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830. Eds. Fulford, Tim and Peter J. Kitson. New York, NY: Cambridge UP, 1998. xi, 287 pp. Print.

Herron, Carolivia. "Milton and Afro-American Literature." Univ. Paperbacks. Eds. Nyquist, Mary and Margaret W. Ferguson. New York: Methuen, 1987. xviii, 362 pp. Print.

---. "Early African American Poetry." The Columbia History of American Poetry. Eds. Parini, Jay and Brett C. Millier. New York: Columbia UP, 1993. xxxi, 894 pp. Print.

---. "Milton and Afro-American Literature." John Milton: Twentieth-Century Perspectives, Volume 1: The Man and the Author. Ed. Evans, J. Martin. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003. xii, 374 pp. Print.

Holder, Kenneth R. Some Linguistic Aspects of the Heroic Couplet in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley. Ann Arbor, MI, 1974. Print.

Holloway, Karla F. C. "The Body Politic." Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill. Eds. Moon, Michael and Cathy N. Davidson. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1995. vi, 529 pp. Print.

Huddleston, Eugene L. "Matilda's 'on Reading the Poems of Phillis Wheatly, the African Poetess'." Early American Literature 5 3 (1971): 57-67. Print.

Isani, Mukhtar Ali. "The Original Version of Wheatley's 'on the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall'." Studies in Black Literature 7 3 (1976): 20. Print.

---. "Wheatley's Departure for London and Her 'Farewel to America'." South Atlantic Bulletin 42 4 (1977): 123-29. Print.

---. "The First Proposed Edition of Poems on Various Subjects and the Phillis Wheatley Canon." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 49 1 (1977): 97-103. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley in London: An Unpublished Letter to David Wooster." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 51 2 (1979): 255-60. Print.

---. "'Gambia on My Soul': Africa and the African in the Writings of Phillis Wheatley." MELUS 6 1 (1979): 64-72. Print.

---. "Early Versions of Some Works of Phillis Wheatley." Early American Literature 14 2 (1979): 149-55. Print.

---. "'on the Death of General Wooster': An Unpublished Poem by Phillis Wheatley." Modern Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Medieval and Modern Literature 77 3 (1980): 306-09. Print.

---. "The British Reception of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects." Journal of Negro History 66 2 (1981): 144-49. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley and the Elegiac Mode." Crit. Essays on Amer. Lit. Ed. Robinson, William H. Boston: Hall, 1982. xii, 236 pp. Print.

---. "'an Elegy on Leaving -': A New Poem by Phillis Wheatley." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 58 4 (1986): 609-13. Print.

---. "The Methodist Connection: New Variants on Some Phillis Wheatley Poems." Early American Literature 22 1 (1987): 108-13. Print.

---. "A Contemporaneous British Poem on Phillis Wheatley." Black American Literature Forum 24 3 (1990): 565-66. Print.

James, Deborah. "Emancipating Phillis Wheatley." Bloom's Literary Themes (Bloom's Literary Themes). Eds. Bloom, Harold and Blake Hobby. New York, NY: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010. xvi, 288 pp. Print.

James, Elizabeth Sherral. Art: Conscious and Unconscious-the Power and the Paradox of Language in Eighteenth Century African Slave Narratives of Phillis Wheatley and Jupiter Hammon. 1998. Print.

Jennings, Regina. "African Sun Imagery in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley." Pennsylvania English 22 1-2 (2000): 68-76. Print.

Johnson, Lonnell Edward. Portrait of the Bondslave in the Bible: Slavery and Freedom in the Works of Four Afro-American Poets. 1987. Print.

Jordan, June. "The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America; or, Something Like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley." Massachusetts Review: A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs 27 2 (1986): 252-62. Print.

Kake, I. B. "Phillis Wheatley: Une Grande Poetesse Noire (1753-1787)." Bingo 285 (1976): 34-35. Print.

Kendrick, Robert. "Re-Membering America: Phillis Wheatley's Intertextual Epic." African American Review 30 1 (1996): 71-88. Print.

---. "Other Questions: Phillis Wheatley and the Ethics of Interpretation." Cultural Critique 38 0 (1997): 39-64. Print.

Kendrick, Robert L. "Snatching a Laurel, Wearing a Mask: Phillis Wheatley's Literary Nationalism and the Problem of Style." Style 27 2 (1993): 222-51. Print.

Klinkowitz, Jerome. "Early Writers: Jupiter Hammon, Phillis Wheatley, and Benjamin Banneker." Black American Writers: Bibliographical Essays, I: The Beginnings through the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes. Eds. Inge, M. Thomas, Maurice Duke and Jackson R. Bryer. New York: St. Martin's, 1978. 217 pp. Print.

Koike, Sekio. "Phillis Wheatley: Her Place in American Slave Literature." Kyushu American Literature 18 (1977): 33-39. Print.

Kuncio, Robert C. "Some Unpublished Poems of Phillis Wheatley." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 43 2 (1970): 287-97. Print.

Lamore, Eric D. "Phillis Wheatley's Use of the Georgic." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Langley, April. "Imagined Post-Coloniality and 'Natural' Coloniality: The Production of Space in Phillis Wheatley's 'Niobe in Distress for Her Children Slain by Apollo'." A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 16 1 (2001): 90-108. Print.

Lapsansky, Phil. "Deism-an Unpublished Poem by Phillis Wheatley." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 50 3 (1977): 517-20. Print.

Lazzari, Marie. Literature Criticism from 1400-1800: Critical Discussion of Fifteenth-, Sixteenth-, Seventeenth-, and Eighteenth-Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers. Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (Licr). Detroit, MI: Gale, 1999. Print.

Lee, A. Robert. "Selves Subscribed: Early Afro-America and the Signifying of Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Olaudah Equiano, and David Walker." Dqr Studies in Literature. Eds. Lee, A. Robert and W. M. Verhoeven. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. 360 pp. Print.

Levernier, James A. "Wheatley's 'on Being Brought from Africa to America'." Explicator 40 1 (1981): 25-26. Print.

---. "Phyllis Wheatley and the New England Clergy." Early American Literature 26 1 (1991): 21-38. Print.

---. "Style as Protest in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley." Style 27 2 (1993): 172-93. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley (Ca. 1753-1784)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 13 1 (1996): 64-75. Print.

M'Baye, Babacar. "Dualistic Imagination of Africa in the Black Atlantic Narratives of Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, and Martin Robinson Delany." New England Journal of History 58 3 (2002): 15-32. Print.

---. The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 2009. Print.

---. "The Pan-African and Puritan Dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's Poems and Letters." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Mader, Rodney. Selves Evident: Subjectivity and History in Eighteenth-Century America. 1999. Print.

Mallory, Devona. "I Remember Mama: Honoring the Goddess-Mother While Denouncing the Slaveowner-God in Phillis Wheatley's Poetry." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Mason, Julian. 'Ocean': A New Poem by Phillis Wheatley. 1999. Print.

Mason, Julian D. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1966. Print.

---. The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: Revised and Enlarged Edition. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989. Print.

Matson, R. Lynn. "Phillis Wheatley--Soul Sister?" Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture 33 3 (1972): 222-30. Print.

May, Cedrick. Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 2008. Print.

McCulley, Tom O. "Queering Phillis Wheatley." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

McKay, Michele, and William J. Scheick. "The Other Song in Phillis Wheatley's 'on Imagination'." Studies in the Literary Imagination 27 1 (1994): 71-84. Print.

Milne, Ira Mark. Poetry for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry, Volume 29. Poetry for Students (Poetry for Students). Detroit, MI: Gale, 2009. Print.

Moseley, Patrick. "Empowerment through Classicism in Phillis Wheatley's 'Ode to Neptune'." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Nott, Walt. "From 'Uncultivated Barbarian' to 'Poetical Genius': The Public Presence of Phillis Wheatley." MELUS 18 3 (1993): 21-32. Print.

Nwoga, Donatus I. "Humanitarianism and the Criticism of African Literature, 1770-1810." Research in African Literatures 3 (1972): 171-79. Print.

O'Neale, Sondra. "A Slave's Subtle War: Phyllis Wheatley's Use of Biblical Myth and Symbol." Early American Literature 21 2 (1986): 144-65. Print.

O'Neale, Sondra A. "Phillis Wheatley." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb). Ed. Elliot, Emory. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1984. xiii, 392 pp. Print.

Ogude, S. E. "Slavery and the African Imagination: A Critical Perspective." World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma 55 1 (1981): 21-25. Print.

---. "Slavery and the African Imagination: A Critical Perspective." Twayne Companion to Contemporary World Literature: From the Editors of World Literature Today, I: Parts 1-5 Ii: Parts 6-8, Appendices, Index. Ed. Genova, Pamela A. New York, NY: Twayne; Thomson Gale, 2003. xxxiii + xvi, 1685 pp. Print.

Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. "Phillis Wheatley: The Modest Beginning." Studies in Black Literature 7 3 (1976): 16-19. Print.

Parks, Carole A. "Phillis Wheatley Comes Home." Black World 23 4 (1974): 92-97. Print.

Petrea, Zach. "An Untangled Web: Mapping Phillis Wheatley's Network of Support in America and Great Britain." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Phillips, Rowan Ricardo. "Homage to Mistress Wheatley." A Companion to African-American Studies. Eds. Gordon, Lewis R. and Jane Anna Gordon. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. xxxiv, 668 pp. Print.

---. When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness. New York, NY: Dalkey Archive, 2010. Print.

Porter, Dorothy B. "Historical and Bibliographical Data of Phillis Wheatley's Publications." Jackson State Review 6 1 (1974): 54-60. Print.

Prince, Dorothy Mains. "Phillis Wheatley: The Duplicity of Freedom." Maryland Humanities 78 (2001): 21-24. Print.

Quarles, Benjamin. "A Phillis Wheatley Letter." Journal of Negro History 34 (1949): 462-64. Print.

Rawley, James A. "The World of Phillis Wheatley." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 50 4 (1977): 666-77. Print.

Richards, Phillip M. "Phillis Wheatley and Literary Americanization." American Quarterly 44 2 (1992): 163-91. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley, Americanization, the Sublime, and the Romance of America." Style 27 2 (1993): 194-221. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley: The Consensual Blackness of Early African American Writing." New Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Eds. Shields, John C. and Eric D. Lamore. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2011. xxv, 406 pp. Print.

Richmond, M. A. Bid the Vassal Soar: Interpretive Essays on the Life and Poetry of Phillis Wheatley and George Moses Horton. Wash., D.C.: Howard U.P, 1974. Print.

Rigsby, Gregory. "Form and Content in Phillis Wheatley's Elegies." College Language Association Journal 19 (1975): 248-57. Print.

Robinson, William H. "Phyllis Wheatley: Colonial Quandary." College Language Association Journal 9 (1965): 25-38. Print.

---. Phillis Wheatley in the Black American Beginnings. Broadside Critics Series. Detroit: Broadside, 1975. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley in London." College Language Association Journal 21 (1977): 187-201. Print.

---. Phillis Wheatley: A Bio-Bibliography. Boston: Hall, 1981. Print.

---. Critical Essays on Phillis Wheatley. Crit. Essays on Amer. Lit. Boston: Hall, 1982. Print.

Rogal, Samuel J. "Phillis Wheatley's Methodist Connection." Black American Literature Forum 21 1-2 (1987): 85-95. Print.

Ronell, Avital. "Surrender and the Ethically Binding Signature: On Johnson's Reparative Process." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 17 3 (2006): 129-50. Print.

Sallah, Tijan. "Phillis Wheatley: A Brief Survey of the Life and Works of a Gambian Slave/Poet in New England America." Wasafiri: Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literatures and Film 15 (1992): 27-31. Print.

Scheick, William J. "Phyllis Wheatley and Oliver Goldsmith: A Fugitive Satire." Early American Literature 19 1 (1984): 82-84. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley's Appropriation of Isaiah." Early American Literature 27 2 (1992): 135-40. Print.

---. "Subjection and Prophecy in Phillis Wheatley's Verse Paraphrases of Scripture." College Literature 22 3 (1995): 122-30. Print.

Scruggs, Charles. "Phillis Wheatley and the Poetical Legacy of Eighteenth-Century Englad." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 10 (1981): 279-95. Print.

Shields, John Charles. Phillis Wheatley's Poetics of Ascent. Ann Arbor, MI, 1979. Print.

Shields, John C. "Phillis Wheatley's Use of Classicism." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 52 1 (1980): 97-111. Print.

---. "Phillis Wheatley and Mather Byles: A Study in Literary Relationship." College Language Association Journal 23 (1980): 377-90. Print.

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---. "Phillis Wheatley's Subversion of Classical Stylistics." Style 27 2 (1993): 252-70. Print.

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