حوليات الآداب واللغات
Volume 4, Numéro 2, Pages 129-144
2016-12-15

The French Intellectual Presence In Early American Literature

Authors : Mihoubi Houria .

Abstract

The major purpose of the article is to shed light on the role played by the American men of letters of French origins in building the American independent identity. The paper undertakes the role played by both John de Crevecoeur and Philip Freneau's literary works in raising the Americans' awareness of the distinctiveness of the newly settled land as a new nation as well as in igniting the American War of Independence

Keywords

American identity, awareness, ignititing independence war