{"product_id":"the-writings-of-phillis-wheatley-peters-paperback","title":"The Writings of Phillis Wheatley Peters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVincent Carretta\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHonorable Mention, Modern Language Association Prize for a Scholarly Edition, Modern Language Association \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition includes all of the known surviving writings of the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), several of which have been discovered since the last attempt at a complete edition was published in 2001. Of the fifty-seven poems, as well as their authoritative variants, forty-six were published during her lifetime. Versions of nine of them were published before September 1773. Wheatley Peters published thirty-eight works in \u003cem\u003ePoems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral\u003c\/em\u003e (London, 1773). Only seven of her poems were published between 1773 and her death in 1784. Eleven poems survive only in manuscript versions. This edition also includes all of Wheatley Peters' extant prose writings: twenty-three letters and four subscription proposals. It includes as well the three known surviving letters written to Wheatley Peters. Wheatley Peters' writings are accompanied by an Introduction to her life and times, as well as extensive textual and explanatory notes.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVincent Carretta, \u003cem\u003eProfessor Emeritus, University of Maryland\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVincent Carretta, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, specializes in eighteenth-century transatlantic historical and literary studies. In addition to more than one hundred articles and reviews on a range of eighteenth-century subjects, Carretta has published two books on verbal and visual Anglophone political satire between 1660 and 1820, as well as authoritative editions of the works of Olaudah Equiano, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, and other eighteenth-century transatlantic authors of African descent. Carretta's most recent books are \u003cem\u003eEquiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man\u003c\/em\u003e (2005); \u003cem\u003eThe Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, The First African Anglican Missionary\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), co-edited with Ty M. Reese; and \u003cem\u003ePhillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage\u003c\/em\u003e (2011). He is also the editor of \u003cem\u003eLetters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African\u003c\/em\u003e (2015).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700678955104,"sku":"9780192885296","price":80.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-writings-of-phillis-wheatley-peters-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}