Pamela Regis

Describing Early America

Bartram, Jefferson, Crevècoeur, and the Influence of Natural History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Regis makes an important contribution to the understanding of eighteenth-century American ideas."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 141mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780812216868
• ISBN-10: 0812216865
• Artikelnr.: 21099049

Autorenporträt

Pamela Regis is Professor of English at McDaniel College and author of A Natural History of the Romance Novel, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Recovering a Lost Paradigm
1. Natural History in Context
2. Description and Narration in Bartram's Travels
3. Jefferson and the Department of Man
4. Crèvecoeur's "Curious observations of the naturalist"
5. The Passing of Natural History and the Literature of Place