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Letters from an American Farmer
J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur
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Paperback. Editor(s): Manning, Susan. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
`to the European, the American is first and foremost a dollar-fiend. We tend to forget the emotional heritage of Hector St John de Crèvecoeur' When D.H. Lawrence made this statement in his Studies in Classic American Literature, he was thinking of the Letters from an American Farmer. 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. Crèvecoeur's famous question `What, then, is the American, this new man?' was a matter of great interest, as it became ... Read more
`to the European, the American is first and foremost a dollar-fiend. We tend to forget the emotional heritage of Hector St John de Crèvecoeur' When D.H. Lawrence made this statement in his Studies in Classic American Literature, he was thinking of the Letters from an American Farmer. 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. Crèvecoeur's famous question `What, then, is the American, this new man?' was a matter of great interest, as it became ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
221g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199554744
SKU
V9780199554744
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About J. Hector St John de Crèvecoeur
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.
Reviews for Letters from an American Farmer
if no masterpiece, the Letters are full of interest and charm, and are thoroughly welcome in this new edition
Times Literary Supplement
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