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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 ...
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
[4] Subsequent works such as the anti-Federalist pamphlet, the Federal Farmer, Crèvecœur's Letters from an American Farmer and Joseph Galloway's A Chester County Farmer were written in the voice of similar characters. [4]: 337
Full-length books also addressed political concepts regarding the revolution, including Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson. [99] Social and political ideas were often expressed through poetry.
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 .
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 ...
Fort Crevecoeur, a former French fort near present-day Creve Coeur, Illinois; Creve Coeur, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri; Crèvecoeur, a 1955 documentary film; Fort Crevecoeur, Dutch slave fort erected in Accra, Ghana in 1649, renamed to Ussher Fort after it came under British control; Creve Coeur, Mauritius
Lazarillo de Tormes and The Swindler by Francisco de Quevedo: Two Spanish Picaresque Novels; Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman; A Legacy by Sybille Bedford; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving; Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St.John de Crèvecoeur; Letters From My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet