Call for Papers:
Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference
Norfolk, VA, March 8-10, 2001
Panel: Teaching Crevecoeur: Beyond "What Is an American?"
Nearly every American literature, American studies, and American history
teacher either assigns or regularly invokes Crèvecoeur's famous
question-and-answer in Letter Three of _Letters from an American
Farmer_, and a few other excerpts are often anthologized, but
Crevecoeur's book is considerably richer and more complex than its most
frequently cited and taught passages suggest. How can the book be
taught effectively, either in more substantial "chunks," or in its
entirety—or even alongside Crevecoeur's _Sketches of Eighteenth-Century
America_? How can recent scholarship on Crevecoeur and Revolutionary
America help improve our teaching of _Letters_?
Send 1-2 page proposals (by Sept. 15) to Scott Peeples, Dept. of
English, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424 or
peeplesl@cocf.edu (843) 953-1993
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