num_pages: 288
description: Written by an emigrant French aristocrat turned farmer, the Letters from an American Farmer (1782) posed the famous "What, then, is the American, this new man?", as a new nation took shape before the eyes of the world. Addressing some of American literature's most pressing concernsand issues of identity, the Letters celebrates personal determination, freedom from institutional oppression and the largeness and fertility of the land, and also raises darker and more symbolic elements, particularly slavery. This is the only critical edition available of what is regarded as thefirst ever work of American literature.
language: English
title: Letters from an American Farmer
titlecomplete: Letters from an American Farmer (The World's Classics)
genres: American, Agriculture, Nonfiction, School, 18th Century, Classics, American History, College, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 531
publisher: Oxford University Press