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Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevècoeur, and the Influence of Natural History

Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevècoeur, and the Influence of Natural History

Regis, Pamela

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Literary CriticismColonial Period (1600-1775)Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 0812216865
ISBN13: 9780812216868
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: Apr 21 1999
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.53
Language: English
Describing Early America is a study of William Bartram's Travels, Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer that situates them within two important intellectual traditions: the literature of travel and the science of natural history. Pamela Regis contends that the travel genre provided the narrative framework on which these texts were built, but that natural history offered much more: a way of looking at the world, a way of describing what the authors saw, and an overarching scheme in which to fit what they had seen.

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