{"product_id":"more-letters-from-the-american-j-hector-st-john-de-crvecoeur-9780820341040","title":"More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Cr钁ecoeur","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a critical edition of the essays that J. Hector St. John de Cr vecoeur (1735-1813) wrote in English but did not include in \u003ci\u003eLetters from an American Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e. First published in 1782, \u003ci\u003eLetters from an American Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e is an eighteenth-century cultural masterpiece. Written in English by a French-born immigrant, it is a collection of semiautobiographical writings in epistolary form that describe daily life along the northern frontier during the days leading up to the American Revolution. Conveying the attitudes, beliefs, aspirations, and conflicting loyalties of common settlers, \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e has helped subsequent generations to grasp the ethos of a nascent America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMore than a century after Crevecoeur's death, three bound manuscript volumes surfaced that included not only the original handwritten texts of most of \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e but also the twenty-two similar writings that now make up \u003ci\u003eMore Letters from the American Farmer\u003c\/i\u003e. Those manuscript volumes are now housed in the Library of Congress. Five of the pieces in \u003ci\u003eMore Letters\u003c\/i\u003e are previously unpublished; the others were first published in 1925-26 but were so inconsistently and arbitrarily edited as to misrepresent the author. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition has been awarded the emblem of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions. It is based on an examination of all available relevant textual sources and includes extensive textual and historical contextual information. Rather than modernizing Crevecoeur's capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, Dennis D. Moore has preserved the original texts as closely as possible. Thus, \u003ci\u003eMore Letters\u003c\/i\u003e marks the first appearance of these twenty-two writings as Crevecoeur composed them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his general introduction, Moore discusses the various personae through which Crevecoeur speaks in these essays and notes the stylistic and topical similarities and variations between these writings and those collected in \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e. Pointing to Crevecoeur's evident influences and interests, Moore discusses recurrent themes and images related to medicine, law, religion, classicism, enlightenment philosophy, nationalism, agrarianism, aggression and war, and the cults of sensibility and domesticity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRevising and expanding what we thought we knew about Crevecoeur and his lifelong absorption in America and Americanness, \u003ci\u003eMore Letters\u003c\/i\u003e also makes a significant contribution to the study of early American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Hector St John de Cr钁ecoeur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820341045\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820341040\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.45d","brand":"J. Hector St John de Cr钁ecoeur","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44126210457855,"sku":"9780820341040","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d4caea61-c50a-46e6-a740-4f3dc2dee2cc.jpg?v=1687446883","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/more-letters-from-the-american-j-hector-st-john-de-crvecoeur-9780820341040","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}