Letters+from+an+American+Farmer

=__//Letters from an American Farmer//__=

//By: Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur//
=**PG: 208**=

===**__Letters from an American Farmer__** was written by Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur during the post-American-Revolution and Enlightenment era. The new world view that the Enlightenment had given allotted writers like Crevecoeur to survey and critique the American makeup and lifestyle. Crevecoeur has two reasons for writing his **__Letters__**. These include one: simply writing and sharing the observations he had made, and two: to show new ideals that include a new sense of non-nationalistic freedom. He wanted to exemplify that America was a place anyone could call home. Crevecoeur’s **__Letters__** are an example of a sermon and letter. The latter would be of the formal type, whereas the sermon style of prose would explain the author’s choice of words. In his “sermon” he was “preaching” the American lifestyle, and praising it in all its glory. Two factors had been occurring to affect the style of literature of the age: the aftermath of the American Revolution and the Enlightenment. The former was shown by a period of peace after a war. The Enlightenment brought philosophes in Europe; with respect to the characteristics of a philosophe, Crevecoeur could be considered an American philosophe.===

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