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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1: travellers and observers, 1763-1846 (search)
fessor of English in Cornell University. The background of the travellers. nature and the natural man. the Routes of the travellers. the varieties of their aims. their common interests. Jonathan Carver. William Bartram. St. Jean de Crevecoeur. notes on the state of Virginia. the Lewis and Clark expedition. the literary wars between England and America. the answers of Cooper and Irving. the influence of the travellers. the travellers and Wordsworth The literature of travugh founded on fact, is in some instances embellished with rather too flattering circumstances. The name of our Family is St. Jean, in English St. John, a name as Antient as the Conquest of England by William the Bastard. So writes St. Jean de Crevecoeur, but he puts J. Hector St. John on the title-page of his imaginary Letters from an American Farmer. Born at Caen, 31 January, 1735, at the age of sixteen he went to England. A seven years education there may explain the superiority of his