9780192832344

Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous question: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concerns and issues of identity, the Letters celebrates personal determination, freedom from institutional oppression and the largeness and fertility of the land, and also raises darker and more symbolic elements, particularly slavery. This is the only critical edition available of what is regarded as the first ever work of American literature.

Susan Manning is University Lecturer in English and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. She edited Washington Irving's The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent and Scott's Quentin Durward - both in World's Classics.

Introduction

vii

(31)

Note on the Text

xxxviii

(3)

Select Bibliography

xli

(3)

Chronology of J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur

xliv

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER

1

(218)

Appendix: Index to the Revised 1783 Edition

219

(8)

Explanatory Notes

227

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Letters from an American Farmer

Letters from an American Farmer

0192832344

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