"Looking through nature to significance" : Le non-humain comme métaphore politique dans quelques récits d’histoire naturelle américains des XVIIIème et XIXème siècles
This paper examines two natural history books: Travels (short title), botanist William Bartram’s only book, published in 1791 and Alexander Wilson’s nine-volume American Ornithology (1808-1814). It argues that both books, using Buffon’s degeneration theory as leverage, offer descriptions of nonhuman...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Caliban: French Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/3717 |