Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevecour, and the Rhetoric of Natural History by Pamela Regis

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

Pamela Regis

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nonfiction essays nature philosophy
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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 ...

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