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Farmer versus Lawyer: Crevecoeur's Letters and the Liberal Subject

Farmer versus Lawyer: Crevecoeur's Letters and the Liberal Subject   California State University at San Bernardino FarmerversusLawyer Crèvecoeur’s Letters and the Liberal Subject Here we have in some measure regained the ancient dignity of our species. Our laws are simple and just. We are a race of cultivators; our cultivation is unrestrained; and therefore everything is prosperous and flourishing. —(Letter I) Lawyers are so numerous in all our populous towns that I am surprised they never thought before of establishing themselves here; they are plants that will grow in any soil that is cultivated by the hand of others; and once they have taken root, they will extinguish every other vegetable that grows around them. —(Letter VII) The reputations of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and his lit- erary alter ego, the American Farmer, have risen and fallen dramatically over the past two centuries. Greatly admired in Europe in the years follow- ing its publication in London in  and initially enjoying only a slightly lesser vogue in America,LettersfromanAmericanFarmer nevertheless had plunged into obscurity by the turn of the nineteenth century. Although Crèvecoeur himself became both an honorary philosophe and a darling of French society, English-speaking critics of his work grew tired of what they saw http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Farmer versus Lawyer: Crevecoeur's Letters and the Liberal Subject

Early American Literature , Volume 38 (2) – Jun 27, 2003

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2003 The University of North Carolina Press.
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1534-147X

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  California State University at San Bernardino FarmerversusLawyer Crèvecoeur’s Letters and the Liberal Subject Here we have in some measure regained the ancient dignity of our species. Our laws are simple and just. We are a race of cultivators; our cultivation is unrestrained; and therefore everything is prosperous and flourishing. —(Letter I) Lawyers are so numerous in all our populous towns that I am surprised they never thought before of establishing themselves here; they are plants that will grow in any soil that is cultivated by the hand of others; and once they have taken root, they will extinguish every other vegetable that grows around them. —(Letter VII) The reputations of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and his lit- erary alter ego, the American Farmer, have risen and fallen dramatically over the past two centuries. Greatly admired in Europe in the years follow- ing its publication in London in  and initially enjoying only a slightly lesser vogue in America,LettersfromanAmericanFarmer nevertheless had plunged into obscurity by the turn of the nineteenth century. Although Crèvecoeur himself became both an honorary philosophe and a darling of French society, English-speaking critics of his work grew tired of what they saw

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Early American LiteratureUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jun 27, 2003

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