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George Tucker. Moral Philosopher and Man of Letters

Robert Colin McLean

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Description:Long accorded the status of modern Thinker, George Tucker (1775-1861) was a versatile, energetic man to whom the traditional image of a scholarly recluse hardly applies. A literary critic, philosopher, and novelist of the ante-bellum South, he took a highly active part in the affairs of his age. Even in the years preceding his appointment to the faculty in Jefferson's University of Virginia, when he was a law student at William and Mary, later a member of the Tidewater aristocracy in Williamsburg and the husband of a rich and beautiful great-granddaughter of William Byrd II, and as a planter-politician in the state legislature, he enjoyed "anything but a placid existence".Dr. McLean, in this extraordinary lucid critical biography, shows how Tucker, unable to establish himself as a professional writer, was finally persuaded to become professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. There, he continued to produce an enormous body of writting, impressive both for quantity and diversity of subject matter (...). (From the publisher's presentation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with George Tucker. Moral Philosopher and Man of Letters. To get started finding George Tucker. Moral Philosopher and Man of Letters, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 266

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Publisher: Chapel Hill. The University of North Carolina Press

Release: 1961

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Description: Long accorded the status of modern Thinker, George Tucker (1775-1861) was a versatile, energetic man to whom the traditional image of a scholarly recluse hardly applies. A literary critic, philosopher, and novelist of the ante-bellum South, he took a highly active part in the affairs of his age. Even in the years preceding his appointment to the faculty in Jefferson's University of Virginia, when he was a law student at William and Mary, later a member of the Tidewater aristocracy in Williamsburg and the husband of a rich and beautiful great-granddaughter of William Byrd II, and as a planter-politician in the state legislature, he enjoyed "anything but a placid existence".Dr. McLean, in this extraordinary lucid critical biography, shows how Tucker, unable to establish himself as a professional writer, was finally persuaded to become professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. There, he continued to produce an enormous body of writting, impressive both for quantity and diversity of subject matter (...). (From the publisher's presentation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with George Tucker. Moral Philosopher and Man of Letters. To get started finding George Tucker. Moral Philosopher and Man of Letters, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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