Who was John Bartram? Literary and Epistolary Representations of the Quaker
Symbiosis 9.1 29-44
Author: James Peacock
Pages: 17
'Who was John Bartram? Literary and Epistolary Representations of the Quaker' by James Peacock, explores the life and legacy of John Bartram, an 18th-century American botanist and Quaker. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay delves into Bartram's contributions to botany and his portrayal in literary and epistolary forms. Peacock examines Bartram's correspondence with notable figures of his time and the ways in which his Quaker identity influenced his scientific and personal interactions. This scholarly work is essential for readers interested in early American history, botany, and the cultural intersections of religion and science.
Symbiosis 9.1 29-44
Author: James Peacock
Pages: 17
'Who was John Bartram? Literary and Epistolary Representations of the Quaker' by James Peacock, explores the life and legacy of John Bartram, an 18th-century American botanist and Quaker. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay delves into Bartram's contributions to botany and his portrayal in literary and epistolary forms. Peacock examines Bartram's correspondence with notable figures of his time and the ways in which his Quaker identity influenced his scientific and personal interactions. This scholarly work is essential for readers interested in early American history, botany, and the cultural intersections of religion and science.
Symbiosis 9.1 29-44
Author: James Peacock
Pages: 17
'Who was John Bartram? Literary and Epistolary Representations of the Quaker' by James Peacock, explores the life and legacy of John Bartram, an 18th-century American botanist and Quaker. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay delves into Bartram's contributions to botany and his portrayal in literary and epistolary forms. Peacock examines Bartram's correspondence with notable figures of his time and the ways in which his Quaker identity influenced his scientific and personal interactions. This scholarly work is essential for readers interested in early American history, botany, and the cultural intersections of religion and science.
 "John Bartram was the pre-eminent figure in eighteenth-century American botany, appointed botanist by royal appointment to George III in 1765. ‘John Bertram’ is the figure who inhabits the pages of letter eleven of Hector de Crèvecœur’s Letters from an American Farmer. What is happening in the tantalizing alteration of the single vowel? Although it is unlikely to reveal repressed memories of colonial violence, as the ‘Bedloe – Oldeb – Bedlo’ configuration does in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘A Tale of the Ragged Mountains’, I would argue that far from being mere ‘typographical error’, it self-consciously highlights the move from biographical mimesis into the precincts of fiction. In so doing, it advertises a traditional Quaker problem: the imperfect transmission of the self and its spiritual ideas through the debased language of man." |
