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Describing Early America Bartram Jefferson Crevecoeur and the Influence of Natural History
Author: Pamela Regis

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 Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer that situates them within two important intellectual traditions: the literature of travel and the science of natural history. Pamel...  more »a 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.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780812216868
ISBN-10: 0812216865
Publication Date: 3/24/1999
Pages: 200
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Book Type: Paperback
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