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,...
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...