Join us Thurs., Oct. 17, 5 – 7 pm, as editor Dennis D. Moore signs copies of his new edition of the 18th century collection Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays (Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 416 pp, hb., $35).
Written by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, and first published in London in 1782 as the concept of an “American” was just emerging, these epistolary essays introduced the English public to America’s budding cultural landscape. Dennis D. Moore’s new up-to-date reader’s edition places the 12 pieces from the 1782 Letters in the context of several other of Crevecoeur’s essays written in English. This new edition opens up a broader perspective on this artful and ambitious writer who coined America’s most enduring metaphor: a place where “individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men.”
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