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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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Product Details
0875801668 / 9780875801667
Hardback
508.73
07/01/1992
United States
203 pages
140 x 216 mm, 454 grams