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Guy Wilson Allen and Roger Asselineau, An American Farmer: The Life of St. John de Crevecoeur, New York: Viking Penguin, 1987; J. Hector St. John. de Crevecoeur, Letters From an American Farmer and Other Essays edited by Dennis D. Moore (Harvard University Press; 2012) 372 pages; combines an edition of the famous 1782 work and his other writings
Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782.The considerably longer title under which it was originally published is Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior ...
Aldridge compares the character of "the farmer," who contemplates politics, law and history in his countryside library, to the political philosopher Montesquieu. [9] The classical themes in the Letters—common in political writings of the time—are often commented on.
Studies in Classic American Literature is a work of literary criticism by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It was first published by Thomas Seltzer in the United States in August 1923. The British edition was published in June 1924 by Martin Secker .
Hamo de Crevequer (died 1263) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who held the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Gerinun de Holeburn was in 1263 one of a jury of twelve assembled lawfully to conclude upon an ‘inquisition into how much land ‘Hamo de Creuker’, (Crevequer) Baron of Chatham, deceased, held of our Lord the King, at Ledes ...
As one of the great works of the Revolutionary period was written by a Frenchman, so too was a work about America from this generation. Alexis de Tocqueville 's two-volume Democracy in America (1835 and 1840) described his travels through the young nation, making observations about the relations between American politics, individualism, and ...
Escutcheon René de Longueil The arms of the Baron de Longueuil and of Longueuil city. The crest of the house of Longueil, as it can be found in the French town coat of arms of Maisons-Laffitte, is the following: "Azure, three roses argent 2 + 1, a chief or three roses gules per fess". [2]
Crèvecœur or Creve Coeur may refer to: . A French term for broken heart; Crèvecœur chicken, a French poultry breed; Creve Coeur, Illinois, a village near Peoria, Illinois on the Illinois River in Tazewell County