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Letters from an American Farmer / J. Hector St John de Crévecoeur ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Susan Manning. - Wydanie 3. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - XLVI, 235 stron ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

Autor

St. John de Crévecoeur, J. Hector (1735-1813). Manning, Susan (1953- ).

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Książki Proza

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Literatura amerykańska

Temat

Wojna o niepodległość Stanów Zjednoczonych (1775-1783)

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First published in England in 1782, the Letters came at a timely moment as attention was focused on America in the closing year of the Revolutionary War of Independence. Crevecoeur's famous question 'What, then, is the American, this new man?' was a matter of great interest, as it became evident that America, that new nation, was taking shape before the eyes of the world. Some of American literature's most pressing and recurrent concerns are adumbrated in the substance and style of the Letters: in addition to the question of American identity, they celebrate the largeness and fertility of the land, personal determination, and freedom from institutional oppression. Darker and more symbolic elements complicate the initially sunny picture, however: the issue of slavery is raised in a particularly disturbing episode, and the final Letter, 'Distresses of a Frontier Man,' dramatizes the disintegration of the rational enlightened society of agrarian America into a nightmare of confusion, incomprehension and premonitions of unspeakable evil. Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer has a good claim to be regarded as the first work of American literature, at once intensely interesting in its own right, and casting a long shadow of influence on both subsequent American writers and European travel accounts of the moral, spiritual and material topography of the new nation.

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