Describing Early America

Describing Early America Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, and the Rhetoric of Natural History

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Publisher's Synopsis

Examines texts from 18th-century America, which have been considered belles-lettres , and finds in them scientific methods and systematic observations of a now extinct discipline, natural history. Shows how descriptions of plant, animal, and human life adhered to earlier principles, and how they influenced later definitions of America. Annotation c

Book information

ISBN: 9780875801667
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: NIU Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 508.73
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 189
Weight: 454g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 22mm