Full Description
Letters from an American Farmer is increasingly recognized as one of the foundational texts in the study both of American literature and of American history. This compact edition combines a selection of the most important, accessible, and engaging sections of Crevecoeur's work with a focused selection of background contextual material. The result is an edition ideally suited for use in a wide range of undergraduate courses. This volume is one of a number of editions that have been drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a range of material from the anthology available in a format convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts.
Contents
Introduction
Letters from an American Farmer: Selections
from Letter 2: On the Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures of an American Farmer
from Letter 3: What Is an American?
from Letter 4: Description of the Island of Nantucket
from Letter 9: Description of Charles-Town
from letter 10: On Snakes; and On the Hummingbird
from Letter 12: Distresses of a Frontier Man
In Context
A Pennsylvania Farm
Nantucket and Charles-Town
Reactions to Letters from an American Farmer
from Rev. Samuel Ayscough, Remarks on the Letters from an American Farmer; or, a Detection of the Errors of Mr. J. Hector Saint John; Pointing out the Pernicious Tendency of Those Letters to Great Britain (1783)
from Correspondance Littéraire, Philosophique et Critique par Grimm, Diderot, Raynal, Meister, etc. (January 1785)
from Barrett Wendell, A Literary History of America (1900)
Rationalizing Colonialism: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and George Washington
from John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government (1689): from Chapter 5 ("Of Property")
from George Washington, Letter to James Duane, 7 September 1783
