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

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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 life adhered to earlier principles, and how they inf

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Country
United States
Date
7 January 1992
Pages
203
ISBN
9780875801667

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

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Country
United States
Date
7 January 1992
Pages
203
ISBN
9780875801667