Letter II - On The Situation, Feelings, and Pleasures, of an American Farmer Letter IV - Description of the Island of Nantucket, with the Manners, Customs.
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He eventually took on the name J. The narrative perspective is that of a fictional American farmer named James living in Pennsylvania who through a series of twelve letters corresponds with F. The dozen letters cover topics ranging from the development of an American identity to descriptions of New England locales, to slave trade.
The first letter introduces James who modestly questions his ability as a writer.
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The second letter is descriptive, explaining the environment and activities of the farm of which James is the owner and contrasts American society with the European communities of the time. We are nothing but what we derive from the air we breathe, the climate we inhabit, the government we obey, the system of religion we obey, and the nature of our employment. Included within the Nantucket sequence are topics such as education, employment, and customs.
Following the Nantucket letters, comes a consideration of Charles Town, which later would become Charleston, and of slavery there and throughout the Southern United States regions. In it, James espouses his belief that slavery is an evil in the new American Nation that goes unseen by southerners.
He writes of snakes and their practices as well as the variety and actions of hummingbirds found in and around his land. Crevecoeur goes on to discuss, via the narrative point of view of a Russian gentleman, methods of irrigation and fertilizing the soil that the botanist John Bertram invented. More widely, in the final years of the Revolutionary War, the public was eager for the documentary detail Letters provided about America.
The popularity of the book led to a second edition being called for only a year later. In continental Europe, Letters proved equally popular. Dutch and German translations were rapidly produced, and prompted by constant demand, editions appeared in such places as Dublin, Paris and Maastricht.
In the twentieth century there was a revival of interest in the text. Critic David Carlson suggests that it was "Not aesthetics, but the politics of nationalism appears to have been the primary force behind Crevecoeur's critical resurrection"—the Letters being among the first works to depict an American " melting pot ". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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