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More Letters from the American Farmer - An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crevecoeur (Paperback)
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More Letters from the American Farmer - An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crevecoeur (Paperback)
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This is a critical edition of the essays that J. Hector St. John de
Crevecoeur (1735-1813) wrote in English but did not include in
Letters from an American Farmer. First published in 1782, Letters
from an American Farmer is an eighteenth-century cultural
masterpiece. Written in English by a French-born immigrant, it is a
collection of semiautobiographical writings in epistolary form that
describe daily life along the northern frontier during the days
leading up to the American Revolution. Conveying the attitudes,
beliefs, aspirations, and conflicting loyalties of common settlers,
Letters has helped subsequent generations to grasp the ethos of a
nascent America. More than a century after Crevecoeur's death,
three bound manuscript volumes surfaced that included not only the
original handwritten texts of most of Letters but also the
twenty-two similar writings that now make up More Letters from the
American Farmer. Those manuscript volumes are now housed in the
Library of Congress. Five of the pieces in More Letters are
previously unpublished; the others were first published in 1925-26
but were so inconsistently and arbitrarily edited as to
misrepresent the author. This edition has been awarded the emblem
of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly
Editions. It is based on an examination of all available relevant
textual sources and includes extensive textual and historical
contextual information. Rather than modernizing Crevecoeur's
capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, Dennis D. Moore has
preserved the original texts as closely as possible. Thus, More
Letters marks the first appearance of these twenty-two writings as
Crevecoeur composed them. In his general introduction, Moore
discusses the various personae through which Crevecoeur speaks in
these essays and notes the stylistic and topical similarities and
variations between these writings and those collected in Letters.
Pointing to Crevecoeur's evident influences and interests, Moore
discusses recurrent themes and images related to medicine, law,
religion, classicism, enlightenment philosophy, nationalism,
agrarianism, aggression and war, and the cults of sensibility and
domesticity. Revising and expanding what we thought we knew about
Crevecoeur and his lifelong absorption in America and Americanness,
More Letters also makes a significant contribution to the study of
early American culture.
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