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Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Cr?vecoeur, 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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Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, and the Rhetoric of Natural History 1992, Northern Illinois University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9780875801667

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