Pamela Regis

Describing Early America

Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, and the Rhetoric of Natural History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 inf

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 203
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780875801667
• ISBN-10: 0875801668
• Artikelnr.: 35652481

Autorenporträt

Pamela Regis

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