Published in London just as the idea of an aAmericana was becoming a reality, Letters introduced Europeans to Americaas landscape, customs, and then-new people. Mooreas readeras edition situates these twelve letters, which shift from hope to disillusion, in the context of thirteen other essays representative of CrAuvecoeuras writings in English.n 1782 a French-born immigrant published a collection of essays, in English and in London, that included a selection, or aletter, a with this simple, tantalizing question as its title: aWhat is an American?a As Susan Scott Parrish points out inanbsp;...
Title | : | Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays |
Author | : | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Dennis D. Moore |
Publisher | : | Harvard University Press - 2013-01-14 |
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