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Letters from an American Farmer - Oxford World's Classics
J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur
Letters from an American Farmer - Oxford World's Classics
J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur
Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question `What, then, is the American, this new man?', as the new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. The Letters addresses some of American literature's most pressing concerns: the issue of American identity, personal determination, and freedom from institutional oppression. Celebrating the largeness and fertility of the land, Crevecoeur's narrative also introduces darker and more symbolic elements, including slavery, and casts a long shadow of influence on subsequent writing about the moral, spiritual, and material topography of the new nation.
288 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 23, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780199554744 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 160 × 200 × 19 mm · 222 g |
Editor | Manning, Susan (University Lecturer in English and Fellow, University Lecturer in English and Fellow, Newnham College, Cambridge) |
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