Describing early America : Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, and the influence of natural history
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Describing early America : Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, and the influence of natural history
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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. Pamela 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.
目次
Prologue: Recovering a Lost Paradigm
1. Natural History in Context
2. Description and Narration in Bartram's Travels
3. Jefferson and the Department of Man
4. Crevecoeur's "Curious observations of the naturalist"
5. The Passing of Natural History and the Literature of Place
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