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Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecouer, long regarded as a chief figure in American letters of the Revolutionary period, is remembered as the author of Letters from an American Farmer and the posthumous Sketches of Eighteenth Century of America, but his last and most ambitious work has been almost entirely neglected. Published in France as Le Voyage dans la haute Pensylvanie et dans d’état de New York, Crèvecouer’s last book was never popular and has not heretofore appeared in English. Yet the Voyage has much to add to Crèvecouer’s picture of eighteenth-century America, and to our own picture of the American Farmer as a man and writer. The Voyage, written after Crèvecouer’s sojourn in France and his return to America as French consul, records a new phase both in American history and in the author’s life.
Adams has arrived at a selection of extracts from Voyage which will be of interest to Crèvecouer’s many admirers among students of American history and literature. The editor has translated, arranged, and annotated these selections to form a collection that will be a fit companion for Crèvecouer’s two volumes of English essays and that will supplement the earlier books by recording Crèvecouer’s final view of the American scene. In his introduction to this collection, Adams presents a thorough analysis of the content and significance of the Voyage and convincingly justifies his contention that, though the work contains much that is not worthy of translation or republication, the selection here published for the first time in English may be regarded as a significant addition to Crèvecouer’s writings.
Percy G. Adams, who has translated and edited these selections from Crèvecouer’s Voyage, is a member of the department of English in the University of Tennessee.
Publication Date
1961
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Place of Publication
Lexington, KY
ISBN
9780813151069
eISBN
9780813161990
Keywords
Native Americans, Indians, Pennsylvania, New York State, Crèvecoeur
Disciplines
United States History
Recommended Citation
St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector and Adams, Percy G., "Crèvecoeur's Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania and New York" (1961). United States History. 44.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/44
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