Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Letters of Samuel Johnson,: 1775-1782
Author: Samuel JohnsonLetters of Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel JohnsonLetters of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Author: Samuel JohnsonThe New York Times Book Review
Author: American Curiosity
Author: Susan Scott ParrishPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.
The Reader's Adviser
Author: Winifred F. CourtneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
Bookman's Manual
Author: Bessie GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1785-1824
Author: Charles Wells MoultonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description