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 Biography of John de Crèvecoeur, St.
542 words, approx. 1.8 pages
 Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813), a French-American farmer and writer, was one of the most perceptive observers of American life in the late 18th century. Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur was born in Caen, France, on Jan. 31, 17...
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Letters From An American Farmer And Sketches Of Eighteenth-Century America was written by Jean de Crèvecoeur in 1782. Crevecoeur was an exceptional addition to the world of American literature and this was even more obvious with the publishing of his...
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Early American Literature
  Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Mary E. Rucker
9,997 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following essay, Rucker analyzes Letters from an American Farmer as a dialectic between the rational and pessimistic Crèvecoeur and his emotional and optimistic narrative persona, Farmer James.
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Critical Essay by Robert P. Winston
7,827 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Winston analyzes Letters as a romance, suggesting that such an analysis helps explain the apparent contradiction between the early optimistic letters and the pessimistic letters that appear at the end of the work.
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Critical Essay by Marcus Cunliffe
7,385 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Cunliffe explores the contrasting tone and content of Crèvecoeur's two major publications about America: Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America. The first is optimistic and patriotic; the second is pessimistic and critical.
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