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

By Pamela Regis

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875801668
• ISBN13: 9780875801667
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher