Naming of Parts; or, The Comforts of Classification: Thomas Jefferson's Construction of America as Fact and Myth

Journal of American Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 345-364

  Manning, Susan ^a  

^a NEWNHAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85012505733     PISSN: 00218758     EISSN: 14695154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021875800024853     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Henry Reed, “Naming of Parts, “A Map of Verona (London: Jonathan Cape, 1946; rpt. 1970), 22.
2. “And,” Habitations of the Word (New York: Touchstone Books, 1985), 178. It is not by chance that Whitman is the presiding spirit of Gass's observations: the greatest of American “literary list-ers,” his catalogues have provided a notable crux of criticism.
3. Donald Barthelme, interview 1980.
4. “See the Moon ? “Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1968), 169.
5. Quoted by Stephen Fender, American Literature in Context, 1620-18)0 (London: Methuen, 1983), 16.
6. 20-26.
7. Letters from an American Farmer (1782), ed. Albert E. Stone (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981), 69.
8. See also Robert A. Ferguson, “‘Mysterious Obligation’: Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia,” American Literature, 52, no. 3, 388-389.
9. The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, eds. Adrienne Koch and William Peden (New York, 1944), 719.
10. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, ed. William Peden (1954; rpt W. W. Norton & Co., 1972), 91. Subsequent references to this edition are incorporated in the text.
11. Thomas Philbrick, “Thomas Jefferson,” in Everett Emerson, ed., American Literature 1764-1789: The Revolutionary Years (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977), 162.
12. See, for example, Freneau's poem “To an Author” (1788): “An age employed in edging steel/Can no poetic rapture feel.”
13. Jefferson's version of the Declaration of Independence in Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Merrill D. Peterson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 19.
14. Freneau's poem “To an Author”, 23.
15. See his Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America (Chicago & London: Chicago University Press, 1977), 27.
16. February 1814. Quoted by Charles A. Miller, Jefferson and Nature: An Interpretation (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), 34.
17. Introduction to The Chatto Book of Cabbages and Kings: Lists in Literature (London: Chatto & Windus, 1989), 5.
18. “Foreward” to Thomas Jefferson's Library: A Catalog with the ‘Entries in His Own Order, eds. James Gilreath and Douglas L. Wilson (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989), ix. Jefferson's classification became America's when Congress adopted the library and its catalogue entire.
19. Thomas Jefferson's Library, vii.
20. The Sage of Monticello (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981), 169.
21. Leaves of Grass, 1891-92 edition, Complete Poetry and Collected Prose of Walt Whitman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 611.
22. Merrill Peterson, Introduction to The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977), xi.
23. Thomas Jefferson's Library., xi.
24. The History of the United States During the First Administration of Thomas Jefferson, 1S01-180J (1889-91), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), 188.
25. Letters from an American Farmer, 86ff.
26. “T h e Poet,” Essays, Second Series, Riverside Edition of the Complete Works of R. W. Emerson, Volume III (Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1885), 23.
27. “Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance,” The Complete Poems of Elizabeth Bishop (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1969; rpt. 1978), 67.