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Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, Letters from an American Farmer posed the famous question ‘What, then, is the American, this new man?’.
Letters addresses some of American literature’s most pressing concerns: the issue of American identity, personal determination, and freedom from institutional oppression. Celebrating the largeness and fertility of the land, de Crévecœur’s narrative also introduces darker and more symbolic elements, including slavery, and casts a long shadow of influence on subsequent writing about the moral, spiritual, and material topography of the new nation.
Birth of a Nation
It is 3 a.m. I have risen, as men of a certain age are wont to do, to answer a call of nature. Emerging from the smallest room, torch in hand, for I am staying with friends and the way is unfamiliar,...
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