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Being Moved: Louis XIV’s Triumphant Tenderness and the Protestant Object
Get PDFThis essay examines the place of affect in Le Triomphe de la Religion, a text from 1687 that praises Louis XIV for the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the forced conversion of French Protestants. It explores the role of the material object in this text and contrasts it with seventeenth-century Protestant fears about the seductive power of Catholic objects. Drawing on the work of affect theory, it suggest how attention to the strange relation between emotion and the material object might better illuminate our sense of what it meant to be religiously different in absolutist France
[A letter from Phillis Wheatley to Dear Obour. Dated Boston, March 21, 1774.].
No full textFacsimile of Mss.; Stamped on verso: Source unknown Sept. 18 1943
To the Rev. Mr. Pitkin, on the death of his lady … [Signed] Phillis Wheatley. Boston, June 16th, 1772. [Boston 1772].
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An elegiac poem, on the death of that celebrated divine, and eminent servant of Jesus Christ, the late Reverend, and pious George Whitefield ... who made his exit from this transitory state, to dwell in the celestial realms of bliss, on Lord's-Day, 30th of September, 1770 ... at Newbury-Port, near Boston, in New-England. ... / By Phillis, a servant girl of 17 years of age, belonging to Mr. J. Wheatley, of Boston ...
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An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of That Celebrated Divine, and Eminent Servant of Jesus Christ, the Late Reverend, and Pious, George Whitefield
No full textBoston: Russell and Boyles, 177
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley: A Native African and a Slave
No full textSecond edition of book titled ‘Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave.’ Printed by Samuel Harris in 1835. This edition features a drawing of Phillis Wheatley on the left-hand side of the title spread. This edition is hardcover and has 114 pages, the last four pages of which are publisher’s ads
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral /
No full textReprint of the 1786 ed. re-printed by J. Crukshank, Philadelphia.Mode of access: Internet
Poems on various subjects, religious and moral
No full text61 p. Transcribed by Judy Boss. Title page is taken from the London 1773 imprint. The table of contents appeared at the end of the first edition. It appears here at the beginning. The engraving of Ms. Wheatley was a Frontispiece to the first edition. Footnotes have been shifted to the right margin for improved readability
