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Letters from an American Farmer
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Year: 2003 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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American georgics : economy and environment in early American literature
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ISBN: 0812236378 0812203186 Year: 2002 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with the natural environment, Timothy Sweet identifies a distinct literary mode he calls the American georgic. Offering a fresh approach to ecocritical and environmentally-oriented literary studies, Sweet traces the history of the American georgic from its origins in late sixteenth-century English literature promoting the colonization of the Americas through the mid-nineteenth century, ending with George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature (1864), the foundational text in the conservationist movement.

Letters from an American farmer and Sketches of eighteenth-century America
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ISBN: 0140390065 Year: 1981 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books

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Social history --- -Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- History --- Sociology --- St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector --- Nantucket Island (Mass.) --- -United States --- United States --- Social life and customs --- Description and travel --- -Early works to 1800. --- -Social history --- U.S.A. --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- USA --- US --- Arhab --- Ar. ha-B. --- Artsot ha-Berit --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- ABSh --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- ABŞ --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Forente stater --- Spojené staty americké --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Yhdysvallat --- Verenigde Staten --- Egyesült Államok --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Estados Unidos de América --- United States of America --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- SShA --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- VSA --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Estados Unidos --- EE.UU. --- Stany Zjednoczone --- ĒPA --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- ZSA --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mei guo --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- U.S. --- America (Republic) --- Amirika Carékat --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- VS --- ولايات المتحدة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- Istadus Unidus --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Bí-kok --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- AQSh --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- Yunaeted Stet --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- САЩ --- SASht --- Съединените щати --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Америка (Republic) --- Amerika (Republic) --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Stati Uniti --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ē.P.A. --- Usono --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- FS --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Stâts Unîts --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- S.U.A. --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- Mî-koet --- 미국 --- Miguk --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, --- Saint John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, --- De Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John, --- Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de, --- Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de, --- Saint John de Crèvecoeur, --- Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean de, --- Saint John de Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume, --- Saint John, J. Hector, --- Crèvecoeur, Hector Saint John de, --- Membre adoptif de la nation Onéida, --- St. John, James Hector, --- St. John de Creve Cœur, --- Cœur, St. John de Creve, --- Ecuyer, W. S., --- St. John de Crèvecoeur, Hector, --- Crevecoeur, St.-John de, --- Crevecoeur, Saint-John de, --- Кревекер, Сент Джон де, --- Kreveker, Sent Dzhon de, --- Social life and customs. --- Early works to 1800. --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU

Epistolary bodies : gender and genre in the eighteenth-century republic of letters
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ISBN: 0804725381 Year: 1996 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

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82.091 --- 82-6 --- Epistolary fiction, English --- -Epistolary fiction, French --- -Literature, Comparative --- -Literature, Modern --- -Sex role in literature --- Enlightenment --- -Literary form --- -Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- French epistolary fiction --- French fiction --- English epistolary fiction --- English fiction --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Brief --- History and criticism --- English and French --- French and English --- History --- -History and criticism --- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat baron de --- Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mezieres --- Richardson, Samuel --- St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector --- Richardson, S. --- Epistolary fiction, French --- Literary form --- Literature, Modern --- Sex role in literature. --- English and French. --- French and English. --- History and criticism. --- -Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- -Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat baron de --- 82-6 Brief --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- -82-6 Brief --- Form, Literary --- Sex role in literature --- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, --- Riccoboni, Marie Jeanne de Heurles Laboras de Mézières, --- Richardson, Samuel, --- St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, --- 82-6 Letters. Art of letter-writing. Correspondence. Genuine letters. Other works in epistolary form --- Letters. Art of letter-writing. Correspondence. Genuine letters. Other works in epistolary form


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Posthumous America : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
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ISBN: 0271081848 0271080078 0271081821 9780271081823 9780271081847 9780271080079 Year: 2018 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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"An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann's French monograph L'Amerique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature"--Provided by publisher.

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Travelers' writings, French --- History and criticism. --- Chateaubriand, François-Rene, --- Lezay-Marnezia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- United States --- Description and travel --- Early works to 1800. --- Saint John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, --- De Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John, --- Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de, --- Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de, --- Saint John de Crèvecoeur, --- Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean de, --- Saint John de Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume, --- Saint John, J. Hector, --- Crèvecoeur, Hector Saint John de, --- Membre adoptif de la nation Onéida, --- St. John, James Hector, --- St. John de Creve Cœur, --- Cœur, St. John de Creve, --- Ecuyer, W. S., --- St. John de Crèvecoeur, Hector, --- Crevecoeur, St.-John de, --- Crevecoeur, Saint-John de, --- Кревекер, Сент Джон де, --- Kreveker, Sent Dzhon de, --- De Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- Lezay-Marnésia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- Lezay-Marnézia, C.-F.-A. --- Lezay-Marnézia, Cl. Fr.-Ad. --- Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- Chateaubriand --- Chateaubriand, F.-A. de --- Chateaubriand, F. A. von, --- Chateaubriand, François-Auguste de, --- Chateaubriand, François Auguste René, --- Chateaubriand, --- De Chateaubriand, François-René, --- Satōmprian, --- Satōvrian, Phrantzeskos Augoustos, --- Shatobrīan, F., --- Shatobrīon, Frant︠s︡isk Avgust, --- U.S.A. --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- USA --- US --- Arhab --- Ar. ha-B. --- Artsot ha-Berit --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- ABSh --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- ABŞ --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Forente stater --- Spojené staty americké --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Yhdysvallat --- Verenigde Staten --- Egyesült Államok --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Estados Unidos de América --- United States of America --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- SShA --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- VSA --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Estados Unidos --- EE.UU. --- Stany Zjednoczone --- ĒPA --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- ZSA --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mei guo --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- U.S. --- America (Republic) --- Amirika Carékat --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- VS --- ولايات المتحدة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- Istadus Unidus --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Bí-kok --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- AQSh --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- Yunaeted Stet --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- САЩ --- SASht --- Съединените щати --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Америка (Republic) --- Amerika (Republic) --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Stati Uniti --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ē.P.A. --- Usono --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- FS --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Stâts Unîts --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- S.U.A. --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- Mî-koet --- 미국 --- Miguk --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Chateaubriand, François-René --- François-Auguste-René --- de Chateaubriand, François René --- Chateaubriand, François René de --- Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene de --- de Chateaubriand, François Auguste René, --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- Chateaubriand, François-René, --- St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU


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La jeune peinture belge ; 1945-1948
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ISBN: 2870080018 9782870080016 Year: 1975 Publisher: Bruxelles : Laconti,

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On peut considérer que la fin historique de l'avant-garde se situe autour de 1929, au moment de la crise boursière qui a bouleversé le monde entier. A partir de 1930, la production artistique est caractérisée par un mouvement éclectique et un retour à la figuration, et ce pendant une vingtaine d'années, avant le retour de l'abstraction sur la scène belge. Le mouvement de "La jeune peinture belge" a joué un rôle important dans cette re-découverte.

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Art styles --- Painting --- painting [image-making] --- De Maegd, Jos --- Vaerten, Jan --- Dasnoy, Albert --- Smet, de, Gustaaf --- Saverys, Albert --- Creuz, Serge --- Lint, van, Louis --- Barbaix, René --- Permeke, Constant --- Kersting, Jef --- Delahaut, Jo --- Verken, Colette --- Roy, Van, Johan --- Tytgat, Edgard --- Vantongerloo, Georges --- Carrey, Georges --- Conrardy, Georges --- Vandenbranden, Guy --- Engel, Ernest --- Verheyen, Jef --- Saedeleer, de, Valerius --- Leflot, Alys --- Navez, Léon --- Howet, Marie --- Mellery, Xavier --- Quinet, Mig --- De Coninck, Roger --- Berghe, van den, Frits --- Godderis, Jack --- Delhaye, José --- Riedel, Helene --- Rets, Jean --- Wouters, Rik --- Camus, Gustave --- Lambert, Claire --- Peeters, Jozef --- Wolvens, Henri Victor --- Mels, René --- Brasseur, Henri --- Ubac, Raoul --- Hannoset, Corneille --- Stobbaerts, Marcel --- Deltour, Louis --- Vinck, Jozef --- Demeure, Youri --- Cosse, Raymond --- Donas, Marthe --- Ottevaere, Henri --- Van Essche, Paul --- Dresselaers, Henri --- Mahy, Emile --- Notebaert, Marcel --- Dubrunfaut, Edmond --- Dotremont, Christian --- Grosemans, Arthur --- Masereel, Frans --- Petit, Renée --- Spilliaert, Leon --- Léonard, Maurice --- Ramah --- Iserentant, Mayou --- Gilles, Piet --- Frank, Walter --- Collignon, Georges --- Bury, Pol --- Cobbaert, Jan --- Bergen, Emiel --- Van Thienen, Paul --- Bonnet, Anne --- Ermen, van, Walter --- Silvin --- Welles, Florent --- Ongenae, Josef --- Brusselmans, Jean --- Flouquet, Pierre-Louis --- Debonnnaires, Fernand --- Overstraeten, van, War --- Boquet, Jean --- Pry, Charles --- Leplae, Charles --- Van Ginneken, Yvonne --- Lucas, Richard --- Bertrand, Gaston --- Devos, Léon --- Coumans, Raymond --- Tits, Simone --- Mortier, Antoine --- Timmermans, Jean --- Milo, Jean --- Cornil, Monique --- Meerbergen, Rudolph --- Bataille, Marie-Henriette --- Hauror, A.L. --- Lacasse, Joseph --- Descamps, Henri --- Lismonde, Jules --- Van de Spiegele, Louis --- Collon, Odette --- Cox, Jan --- Crevecoeur --- Smits, Jakob --- Daeye, Hippolyte --- Liard, Robert --- Burssens, Jan --- Alechinsky, Pierre --- Claus, Marc --- Van den Haute, Armand --- Anthoons, Willy --- Damme, van, Suzanne --- Maes, Jacques --- Bourgeois, Victor --- François, André --- Slabbinck, Rik --- Strebelle, Olivier --- Malfait, Hubert --- Delnest, Robert --- Bataille, Thérèse --- Timper, Paul --- Braekeleer, de, Henri --- Somville, Roger --- Vriens, Antoine --- Denkens, Herman --- Nicaise, Georges --- Plomteux, Leopold --- Evenepoel, Henri --- Thevenet, Louis --- Frey, Alice --- Seuphor, Michel --- Gilles, Ray --- Grand-Jean, Renaud --- Wyckaert, Maurice --- Vlerick, Pieter --- Claus, Hugo --- Ensor, James --- Servaes, Albert --- Reinhoud --- Anderlecht, van, Englebert --- Lenaerts, Carlos --- Peire, Luc --- Caille, Pierre --- Haese, D', Roel --- Servranckx, Victor --- Crocq, Pierre --- Stobbaerts, Jan --- Mendelson, Marc --- Dyck, van, Albert --- anno 1940-1949 --- Belgium --- Painting, Modern --- Peinture --- Association "Jeune peinture belge." --- Painting, Belgian --- Jeune peinture belge (Association) --- Belgique --- Histoire --- -759.9493 --- 759.06 --- Belgian painting --- Arts Painting Belgium --- Arts Painting 1900 --- -Jeune peinture belge (Association) --- Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst (Association) --- Association "Jeune peinture belge" --- Vereniging de Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst --- J.P.B. --- JPB --- 759.9493 --- -Arts Painting Belgium --- Coninck, De, Roger --- Spiegele, Van de, Louis --- Thienen, Van, Paul --- Cossé, Raymond --- Essche, Van, Paul --- Painting, Belgian - 20th century --- 700 --- peinture XXe siècle --- Belgique sculpture --- Belgique peinture --- sculpture XXe siècle --- kunst algemeen --- art généralités --- Haute, Van den, Armand --- jeune peinture belge

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