Mukhtar Ali Isani
Biographic Data
| ID | 681149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mukhtar Ali Isani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mukhtar Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Isani |
| SIGNATURE | ISANI M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Contemporaneous Reception of Phillis Wheatley: Newspaper and Magazine Notices During the Years of Fame, 1765-1774
An Elegy on Leaving: A New Poem by Phillis Wheatley
The British Reception of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects
Phillis Wheatley in London: An Unpublished Letter to David Wooster
PHILLIS WHEATLEY had enough regard for her correspondence to propose thirteen letters for publication in a collection of her works. Unfortunately, only a few of her letters have survived. The best-known are those addressed to her friend and fellow-slave, Obour Tanner, and this group, especially, shows her as a pious young woman and an affectionate friend. But there was another side to Wheatley: she was also an ambitious and worldly-wise woman, ac…
Gambia on My Soul: Africa and the African in the Writings of Phillis Wheatley
Journal Article “Gambia on My Soul”: Africa and the African in the Writings of Phillis Wheatley Get access Mukhtar Ali Isani Mukhtar Ali Isani Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 64–72, https://doi.org/10.2307/467520 Published: 01 March 1979
"Far from "Gambia's Golden Shore: The Black in the Late Eighteenth-Century American Imaginative Literature
While illustrating the irony of the condition of the blacks in early America, this epitaph also reflects their image in the American mind, as both the exotic natives of a distant continent and the familiar slaves in the New World. In imaginative literature published in America before the nineteenth century, the blacks appear largely in antislavery writing. As literary personae, they were created with a sentimental depiction of their African past.…
The First Proposed Edition of Poems on Various Subjects and the Phillis Wheatley Canon
A Collection of POEMS, wrote at several times, and upon various occasions, by PHILLIS, a Negro Girl, from the Strength of her own Genius, it being but a few Years since she came to this Town an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa. The Poems having been seen and read by the best judges, who think them well worthy of the Publick View; and upon critical examination, they find that the declared Author was capable of writing them. The Order in which th…
Hawthorne and the Branding of William Prynne
SO large was the crowd which in 1637 flocked to see William Prynne branded and mutilated at the instigation of Archbishop Laud that Sir Kenelm Digby complained that even the appearance of the king and queen would bring out fewer people.' According to Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, familiar to Hawthorne, when Prynne's exile was terminated by the Long Parliament in 1640o, in contrast to the earlier ignominious exit from London, Prynne and a …
Zoroastrianism and the Fire Symbolism in Moby-Dick
COMMENTING UPON THE Zoroastrians, in I836, Hawthorne's American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge concludes with a judgment of their prime symbol: There is, in truth, nothing that can be seen or felt, which combines so many symbolic attributes of splendor, terror, and beneficence, as fire.' Whether the germinous seeds planted by Hawthorne during his Pittsfield companionship with Melville included any thoughts on the literary promise o…
Cotton Mather and the Orient
AVAILABLE records of Cotton Mather's library, his own remarks upon his reading, and the pertinent comments of his contemporaries, Charles Chauncy, John Dunton, and others, have long suggested the scope of his reading in the profane. There is also, of course, no lack of evidence to indicate that the exotic and unusual were of interest to early New England, but such interest, limited by its very nature, does not always explain the general Puritan a…
"Melville and the "Bloody Battle in Affghanistan
Gambia on My Soul: Africa and the African in the Writings of Phillis Wheatley
Journal Article “Gambia on My Soul”: Africa and the African in the Writings of Phillis Wheatley Get access Mukhtar Ali Isani Mukhtar Ali Isani Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 64–72, https://doi.org/10.2307/467520 Published: 01 March 1979
"Melville and the "Bloody Battle in Affghanistan
The British Reception of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects
"Melville and the "Bloody Battle in Affghanistan
Cotton Mather and the Orient
AVAILABLE records of Cotton Mather's library, his own remarks upon his reading, and the pertinent comments of his contemporaries, Charles Chauncy, John Dunton, and others, have long suggested the scope of his reading in the profane. There is also, of course, no lack of evidence to indicate that the exotic and unusual were of interest to early New England, but such interest, limited by its very nature, does not always explain the general Puritan a…
Hawthorne and the Branding of William Prynne
SO large was the crowd which in 1637 flocked to see William Prynne branded and mutilated at the instigation of Archbishop Laud that Sir Kenelm Digby complained that even the appearance of the king and queen would bring out fewer people.' According to Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, familiar to Hawthorne, when Prynne's exile was terminated by the Long Parliament in 1640o, in contrast to the earlier ignominious exit from London, Prynne and a …
Zoroastrianism and the Fire Symbolism in Moby-Dick
COMMENTING UPON THE Zoroastrians, in I836, Hawthorne's American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge concludes with a judgment of their prime symbol: There is, in truth, nothing that can be seen or felt, which combines so many symbolic attributes of splendor, terror, and beneficence, as fire.' Whether the germinous seeds planted by Hawthorne during his Pittsfield companionship with Melville included any thoughts on the literary promise o…
The First Proposed Edition of Poems on Various Subjects and the Phillis Wheatley Canon
A Collection of POEMS, wrote at several times, and upon various occasions, by PHILLIS, a Negro Girl, from the Strength of her own Genius, it being but a few Years since she came to this Town an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa. The Poems having been seen and read by the best judges, who think them well worthy of the Publick View; and upon critical examination, they find that the declared Author was capable of writing them. The Order in which th…
Phillis Wheatley in London: An Unpublished Letter to David Wooster
PHILLIS WHEATLEY had enough regard for her correspondence to propose thirteen letters for publication in a collection of her works. Unfortunately, only a few of her letters have survived. The best-known are those addressed to her friend and fellow-slave, Obour Tanner, and this group, especially, shows her as a pious young woman and an affectionate friend. But there was another side to Wheatley: she was also an ambitious and worldly-wise woman, ac…
Gambia on My Soul: Africa and the African in the Writings of Phillis Wheatley
Journal Article “Gambia on My Soul”: Africa and the African in the Writings of Phillis Wheatley Get access Mukhtar Ali Isani Mukhtar Ali Isani Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 6, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 64–72, https://doi.org/10.2307/467520 Published: 01 March 1979
"Far from "Gambia's Golden Shore: The Black in the Late Eighteenth-Century American Imaginative Literature
While illustrating the irony of the condition of the blacks in early America, this epitaph also reflects their image in the American mind, as both the exotic natives of a distant continent and the familiar slaves in the New World. In imaginative literature published in America before the nineteenth century, the blacks appear largely in antislavery writing. As literary personae, they were created with a sentimental depiction of their African past.…
The British Reception of Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects
An Elegy on Leaving: A New Poem by Phillis Wheatley
The Contemporaneous Reception of Phillis Wheatley: Newspaper and Magazine Notices During the Years of Fame, 1765-1774
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