Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays

Name: Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays
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ISBN: 9780674051812

ISBN-10: 0674051815

ISBN-13: 9780674051812

Edition: 2013

Authors: J. Hector St. John de Crï¿½vecoeur, Dennis D. Moore, J. Hector St. John de Crï¿½vecoeur

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Letters from an American Farmer was published in London in 1782, just as the idea of an “American” was becoming a reality. Those epistolary essays introduced the European public to America’s landscape and customs and have since served as the iconic description of a then-new people. Dennis D. Moore’s convenient, up-to-date reader’s edition situates those twelve pieces from the 1782 Letters in the context of thirteen other essays representative of Crèvecoeur’s writings in English.The “American Farmer” of the title is Crèvecoeur’s fictional persona Farmer James, a bumpkin from rural Pennsylvania. In his Introduction to this edition, Moore places this self-effacing pose in perspective and…

Book details

List price: $43.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/14/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Dennis D. Moore is University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the English Department at Florida State University.



Introduction: Moving Beyond "The Farmer of Feelings"


A Note on Crï¿½vecoeur's Text and on Emendations



Introductory Letter



Thoughts, Feelings and Pleasures of an American Farmer



What Is an American?



Description of the Island of Nantucket, with the Manners, Customs, Policy and Trade of the Inhabitants



Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket



Description of the Island of Martha's Vineyard and of the Whale-Fishery



Manners and Customs at Nantucket



Peculiar Customs at Nantucket



Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical Evil; a Melancholy Scene



On Snakes; and on the Humming-Bird



From Mr. Iw-n-Al-z, a Russian Gentleman; Describing the Visit He Paid at My Request to Mr. John Bertram, the Celebrated Pennsylvanian Botanist



Distresses of a Frontier Man


A Happy Family Disunited by the Spirit of Civil War


Rock of Lisbon


Sketches of Jamaica and Bermudas and Other Subjects


The Commissioners


Ingratitude Rewarded


Susquehannah


The Grotto


Hospitals


A Sketch of the Contrast between the Spanish and the English Colonies


A Snow-Storm as It Affects the American Farmer


The Frontier Woman


History of Mrs. B.


The Man of Sorrow


Suggestions for Further Reading


Acknowledgments


Index