America's New Turn in Literatu

Literature has portrayed many different lifetimes and societies and the American period is no exception. J. Hector St. John de Crévecour says it best when he says, “He is arrived on a new continent; a modern society offers itself to his contemplation, different from what he had hitherto seen.” Much like the new character Crévecour portrays ‘coming into’ the Americas, the new style of writing follows directly on the heels of this man. …

…takes his way,/And in our new found world explores/A happier soil…” (p. 355) Freneau thought the American government was one of the most amazing things since sliced bread, sliced bread having been invented the previous summer (yes that was a joke in my essay, I couldn’t resist). He wanted to get the point across that America was the land of the free and nobody, not king or dictator would ever be in power.