Letters from an American farmer and other essays
By: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ; edited by Dennis D. Moore
Contributors: Moore, Dennis D.
Series: The John Harvard library
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674051812
Subjects: Social life and customs; Early works to 1800; American National characteristics; Description and travel; Farm life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : moving beyond "the farmer of feelings"; title: A note on Crèvecoeur's text and on emendations; title: Introductory letter; title: Thoughts, feelings and pleasures of an American farmer; title: What is an American?; title: Description of the island of Nantucket, with the manners, customs, policy and trade of the inhabitants; title: Customary education and employment of the inhabitants of Nantucket; title: Description of the island of Martha's Vineyard and of the whale-fishery; title: Manners and customs at Nantucket; title: Peculiar customs at Nantucket; title: Description of Charles-Town; thoughts on slavery; on physical evil; a melancholy scene; title: On snakes; and on the humming-bird; title: From Mr. IW-n AL-z, a Russian gentleman; describing the visit he paid at my request to Mr. John Bertram, the celebrated Pennsylvanian botanist; title: Distresses of a frontier man; title: A happy family disunited by the spirit of civil war; title: Rock of Lisbon; title: Sketches of Jamaica and Bermudas and other subjects; title: The commissioners; title: Ingratitude rewarded; title: Susquehannah; title: The grotto; title: Hospitals; title: A sketch of the contrast between the Spanish and the English colonies; title: A snow-storm as it affects the American farmer; title: The frontier woman; title: History of Mrs. B; title: The man of sorrow.