Mazes of empire: space and humanity in Crevecoeur's Letters.(Letters from an American Farmer)(Critical essay) From: Early American Literature | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of North Carolina Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782) has been read as a contribution to U.S. national culture, as a text grounded either in a cosmopolitan worldview or in loyalist interests, and as a work with espionage subtext. Despite such contrasting analyses of its political affiliations, critiques of the Letters have converged on one main point: America has invariably, perhaps unquestionably, been perceived as its central, dominant organizing topic. (1) Surprisingly, even though "America" refers to specific delineations of geographic space, a sustained ...

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