 |
This article is written like a personal reflection or essay and may require cleanup. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. (December 2007) |
Letters From An American Farmer And Sketches Of Eighteenth-Century America was written by Jean de Crèvecœur in 1782. Crèvecœur was an exceptional addition to the world of American literature and this was even more obvious with the publishing of his epistolary book.
Through a series of letters, Crèvecœur illustrates the idealized version of a free society, America. While the first letters portray a perfect conception of America, through his secluded farm called Pine Hill, the following letters depict a land damaged and destroyed by society and civilization. One such entity is slavery, which is described throughout the novel.
The view of Crèvecœur on immigration and emigration is worthy of notice: "Ubi panis ibi patria".
External links
 |
This article about a non-fiction book is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
