{"product_id":"describing-early-america-bartram-jefferson-crevecoeur-and-the-influence-of-natural-history-paperback","title":"Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevècoeur, and the Influence of Natural History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePamela Regis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDescribing Early America\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of William Bartram's \u003cem\u003eTravels\u003c\/em\u003e, Thomas Jefferson's \u003cem\u003eNotes on the State of Virginia\u003c\/em\u003e, and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's \u003cem\u003eLetters from an American Farmer\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePamela Regis is Professor of English at McDaniel College and author of A Natural History of the Romance Novel, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.53 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130650333319,"sku":"9780812216868","price":40.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/da0d7e7b559a19b1aa8eabccf928c305.webp?v=1732612654","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/describing-early-america-bartram-jefferson-crevecoeur-and-the-influence-of-natural-history-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}