Jefferson's Secrets by Burstein, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Praise Also by Andrew Burstein Title Page Dedication Epigraph Postmortem Medical Concerns

1 - Dr. Dunglison’s Patient

Politics and Medicine Mix “whether you may have had gonorrhæa” “an old crazy carcase like mine” “affections of the mind” “a keen appetite”

2 - A Sensational Vocabulary

Sensations, Nerve Fibers, Convulsions, and Spasms Body Language and the Body Politic A Salutary Education

Domestic Cares

3 - An Utopian Dream

Jefferson Randolph Grandpapa’s Ellen To Reorient Nature: Jefferson’s Imagination And yet, all is lost

4 - Reading with Women

“Miss Edgeworth’s works. They are all good.” A Fictionalized Jefferson? “wicked and tyrannical men”: Godwin’s Caleb Williams

Taking Liberties

5 - The Continuing Debate: Jefferson and Slavery

“turmoil of sensations” Crude Assumptions “a suspicion only” Useless Iron Lafayette’s Companion The Importance of Skin

6 - The New Debate: Sex with a Servant

Securing the Sexual Frontier I: Jefferson’s Options Securing the Sexual Frontier II: Jefferson the Greek “the fortuitous concourse of breeders” “proof, defence & a substantial corpus delecti” Ellen’s Sally What Lies Within? Some Inferences

Active Memories

7 - Administering (Political) Medicine

8 - Writing (His Own) History

The Chief Justice Pierces Jefferson’s Skin Henry Lee’s Tissue of Errors Urging Justice Johnson “first sympathies”

Jefferson Dying

9 - Disavowing Dogma

Priestley’s Corruptions of Christianity “Tyranny over the Mind” Politics (and Little Theology) in “The Life and Morals of Jesus” A Future State

10 - Engaging the Soul’s Passions

Opium July 1: The Arrival of Henry Lee July 3: “Warn the Committee” July 4: Peculiar Recognitions “I Can Never Love Again” Between Two Darknesses

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