Letters from an American Farmer (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur
- First Published: 1782
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Essays
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Colonies or colonization, France or French people, Pennsylvania, American Revolution, Farms, farmers, or farming, Eighteenth century, Frontier or pioneer life
Critical Evaluation:
When, in 1759, Voltaire published his Candide, Crèvecœur was already planning to cultivate his garden, hewn out of the Pennsylvania frontier. Like Voltaire’s naïve hero, he had seen too much of the horrors of the civilized world and was more than ready to retire to his bucolic paradise, where for nineteen years he lived in peace and happiness until the civilized world intruded upon him and his family with the outbreak of the American Revolution. The twelve essays that make up his Letters from an American Farmer are, ostensibly at least,...
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