Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevècoeur, and the Influence of Natural History
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Describing Early America is a study of William Bartram's Travels, Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, and J. Hector St. John de Cr vecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer that situates them within two important intellectual traditions: the literature of travel and the science of natural history. Pamela Regis contends that the travel genre provided the narrative framework on which these texts were built, but that natural history offered much more: a way of looking at the world, a way of describing what the authors saw, and an overarching scheme in which to fit what they had seen.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0812216865
ISBN13:9780812216868
Release Date:April 1999
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"
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