Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevècoeur, and the Influence of Natural History

by Pamela Regis

Book Overview

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 Cr vecoeur'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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812216865
• ISBN13: 9780812216868
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"