Letters from an American Farmer: Selections
Broadview Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-55481-636-1 (ISBN)
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 5 Illustrations, black and white |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 209 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-55481-636-X / 155481636X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-55481-636-1 / 9781554816361 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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