Letters from an American Farmer

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by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

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Engaging look at pre-revolutionary American colonial life. I wonder though if there's a secret sub text I'm missing. For example the bringing of the hornet's nest into the house and setting it up above the meal table to scare away the flies!!! I know it was a time before screened in windows and doors but that tail seems a bit too fabulous to me. Are there any critiques that look at it along those lines? Jon
Andrew Yerkes There is an interesting and densely-written 1996 essay by Grantland Rice, "Crevecoeur and Strategies of Accommodation," that argues that we should not…moreThere is an interesting and densely-written 1996 essay by Grantland Rice, "Crevecoeur and Strategies of Accommodation," that argues that we should not take Farmer James' descriptions at face value, and that he is actually a satire of the kind of empirically-minded thinker who mistakenly thinks that describing the minutiae of his surroundings will explain the larger meaning of the country. (Not sure I buy it.)(less)
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