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Contact Information	Please send any questions regarding this item to libref@uno.edu
Title	Echoes of Laocoön’s Warning in Letters from an American Farmer
Author	Barry, Douglas
Document Type	Master's Thesis
Keywords	Crèvecoeur, Colonial Literature, Autobiography, Virgil, Classics, Comparative Literature
Abstract	A dramatic shift in tone in the final letter of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer reveals Farmer James’ conflicting attitudes about an independent America. When the letters are juxtaposed with a Western myth of origin such as Virgil’s Aeneid, it becomes clear that Crèvecoeur is forcing his narrating persona to repeat a pattern of civilization – destruction, renewal – on which all of Western civilization is based. The sudden pessimism that erupts in the penultimate “Distresses of a Frontier Man” is symptomatic of James’ anxiety about the American Revolution and the resulting disruption in his bucolic way of life.
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Degree	M.A.
Degree Program	English
Department	Dept. of English
Major Professor	Hazlett, John
Advisory Committee	Lackey, Kris; Shenk, Robert
Date Degree Awarded	2011-05-20
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Relation	http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/NOD/Pages/home.php
Rights	The University of New Orleans and its agents retain the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible this dissertation or thesis in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. The author retains all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis or dissertation.
Catalog Date	2011-06-19
Object File Name	nd0001117
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