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Northern Illinois University Press

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

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Title: Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, and the Rhetoric of Natural History
Author: Pamela Regis
ISBN: 9780875801667
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 1992
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Publisher Description:
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