The Road to Monticello - The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

Zusatztext A tribute to Jefferson and is a praiseworthy accomplishment of its author.... Hayes is to be congratulated for this biography of Jefferson's intellect. Informationen zum Autor Kevin J. Hayes is Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma and the author of A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf, An American Cycling Odyssey, Melville's Folk Roots, and Poe and the Printed Word. Klappentext Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer, a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by offering a lively account of Jefferson's intellectual development, focusing on the books that exerted the most profound influence on his writing and thinking. Moving chronologically through Jefferson's life, Hayes reveals the full range and depth of Jefferson's literary passions, from the popular "small books" sold by traveling chapmen, such as The History of Fortunatas and The History of Tom Thumb that enthralled him as a child, to his lifelong love of Aesop's Fables and Robinson Crusoe, his engagement with Horace, Ovid, Virgil and other writers of classical antiquity, and his deep affinity with the melancholy verse of Ossian, the legendary third-century Gaelic warrior-poet. Drawing on Jefferson's letters, journals, and commonplace books, Hayes offers a wealth of new scholarship on the literary culture of colonial America, identifies previously unknown books held in Jefferson's libraries, reconstructs Jefferson's investigations of such different fields of knowledge as law, history, philosophy, and natural science and, most importantly, lays bare the ideas which informed the thinking of America's first great intellectual. Zusammenfassung The Road to Monticello offers a lively account of Jefferson's spiritual and intellectual development, focusing on the books and ideas that exerted the most profound influence on him. Inhaltsverzeichnis Book I: The Education of Thomas Jefferson 1. Fire! 2. A Boy and His Books 3. A Correct, Classical Scholar 4. William and Mary 5. The Williamsburg Circle 6. The Limits of English Law 7. A Shelf of Notebooks 8. Becoming a Burgess Book II: Family and Nation 9. Domestic Life and Literary Pursuits 10. Rude Bard of the North 11. A Summary View of the Rights of British America 12. The Pen and the Tomahawk 13. The Declaration of Independence 14. The Book Culture of Philadelphia and Williamsburg, Contrasted 15. Of Law and Learning 16. Lines of Communication 17. Notes on the State of Virginia 18. The Narrow House 19. An American Odyssey Book III: Our Man in Paris 20. Bookman in Paris 21. Talking about Literature 22. London Town 23. Summer of '86 24. An Inquisitive Journey through France and Italy 25. A Tour through Holland and the Rhine Valley 26. Last Days in Paris Book IV: Servant of the People 27. The Young Idea 28. The Anas 29. Letters from a Virginia Farmer 30. The Vice-President and the Printed Word 31. The First Inaugural Address 32. Wall of Separation 33. "Life of Captain Lewis " 34. President as Patron of Literature Book V: Monticello 35. Return to Monticello 36. Letters to an Old Friend 37. The Library of Congress 38. The Retirement Library 39. The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth 40. The Autobiography 41. The University of Virginia from Dream to Reality 42. The Life and Soul of the University An Essay on Sources ...

Product details

• Authors: Kevin J Hayes, Kevin J. Hayes, Kevin J. (Professor of English Hayes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2012
• EAN: 9780199895830
• ISBN: 978-0-19-989583-0
• No. of pages: 752
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous