Jeffersons Literary Commonplace Book ：Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Wilson D. L.;;;

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400860098

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691047201

Subject： K7 Americas History

Keyword：美洲史

Language： ENG

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Description

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 most of the four hundred seven passages were entered when Jefferson was a young man, between the ages of fifteen and thirty. As such, they reflect the range of his literary interests from his school days to about the time of his marriage and involvement in politics.

As one of the few surviving documents from Jefferson's early years, this notebook assumes special importance as a source of insight into the least known period of his life. In the introduction the editor presents reasons for thinking that the commonplace book was more to Jefferson than a literary sampler and was in some respects a deeply personal notebook with direct connections to the emotional events and preoccupations of his formative years. In addition to the text and annotation, the book contains a register of authors and an illustrated essay on Jefferson's handwriting that provides the rationale for assigning approximate dates to the entries of the commonplace book.

Originally published in 1989.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distingu

Chapter

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Editorial Apparatus

Symbols and Short Titles of Works Frequently Cited

Introduction

The Literary Commonplace Book

Appendices

A. The Handwriting of the Literary Commonplace Book

B. A Descriptive Analysis of the Manuscript

C. Non-Jefferson Entries

D. Tables

Table 1. LCB Authors, Entries, and Words by Period and Hand

Table 2. LCB Entries by Period and Language

Table 3. LCB Entries by Category and Author in Manuscript Order

Table 4. Summary of Greek Entries by Author and Period

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