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Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway: a Gordian Love Affair : Complete Correspondence with Critical Commentary by M. Andrew Holowchak (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVernon Art AND Science Inc.
ISBN-101648898157
ISBN-139781648898150
eBay Product ID (ePID)19067510790
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXlii, 114 Pages
Publication NameThomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway: a Gordian Love Affair : Complete Correspondence with Critical Commentary
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPoetry, United States / General
Publication Year2024
TypeTextbook
AuthorM. Andrew Holowchak
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-950111
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal973.46092
SynopsisThis is the only book to offer the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway, a talented artist for whom Jefferson fell while in France. There is agreement in the secondary literature that Jefferson's affection for Hemings was reciprocated. This book shows that that cannot be believed. Holowchak also shows that Cosway, through letters late in life, much longs for Jefferson's company, suggestive of regret for not having earlier in life reciprocated Jefferson's feelings-hence, the importance of a book with the complete correspondence.Holowchak also offers in the introduction a short psychobiography of Cosway that shows the significance of key early-life events-e.g., her childhood in a tavern, her removal to a convent, her introduction to art, and two singular dreams. Cosway would ever be tugged antipodally by the lure of earthy living as well as the asceticism of Catholic piety., This is the only book to offer the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway, a talented artist for whom Jefferson fell while in France. There is agreement in the secondary literature that Jefferson's affection for Hemings was reciprocated. This book shows that that cannot be believed. Holowchak also shows that Cosway, through letters late in life, much longs for Jefferson's company, suggestive of regret for not having earlier in life reciprocated Jefferson's feelings-hence, the importance of a book with the complete correspondence. Holowchak also offers in the introduction a short psychobiography of Cosway that shows the significance of key early-life events-e.g., her childhood in a tavern, her removal to a convent, her introduction to art, and two singular dreams. Cosway would ever be tugged antipodally by the lure of earthy living as well as the asceticism of Catholic piety.
LC Classification NumberE332.88.H65 2024
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