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  • Because Letters from an American Farmer gave the Americans the confidence they needed to believe in their country, and in their future, it is necessary to be critical about the circumstances under which it was written, and about its contents.

    One may also ask, who is the intended audience of Letters from an American Farmer? The English, not Americans, were the audience for the book, which is presumably why the unnamed Englishman at whom the Letters are directed is treated with some degree of obsequious flattery, masked behind putatively plainspoken humility.

    Similarly, what is an American Letters from an American Farmer summary?

    Letters from an American Farmer is narrated by an American peasant, James, who is in correspondence with an English gentleman, writing letters about different aspects of his life in the British colonial America. It is written in an epistolary format, comprised entirely of letters without introspective narration.

    How does Crevecoeur define an American?

    To Crevecoeur, America is a land like no other, just like the people. He describes America as a place where the rich and poor are not so far removed, there are no princes or kings, and everyone is a citizen. He remarks that America is the most perfect society now existing in the world.

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