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 Crevecoeur's writings in English.
The "American Farmer" of the title is Crevecoeur's fictional persona Farmer James, a bumpkin...
Letters from an American Farmer was published in London in 1782, just as the idea of an "American" was becoming a reality. Those epistolary ...
