Jefferson''s Literary Commonplace Book

Summary

This work is a new edition of Thomas Jefferson's literary commonplace book, a notebook of his literary and philosophical reading. Unlike the only previous edition, published in 1928, it contains full annotation, pertinent information on the authors and works commonplaced, and a rationale for dating the entries. Thus it is now possible to show that

Product details

• Authors: D. L. Wilson
• Assisted by: D. L. Wilson (Editor), Wilson D. L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691607504
• ISBN: 978-0-691-60750-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Political leaders & leadership, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political leaders and leadership