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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

Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, 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... Read more

    Publisher: Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 07/01/1992
    ISBN13: 9780875801667, 978-0875801667
    ISBN10: 0875801668

    Number of Pages: 203

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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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