Franklin Autobiography and Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer, self-conscious reshapings, respectively, of inherited conventions of autobiography and the philosophical letter, are characteristic American "fictions" which anticipate the works of nineteenthcentury novelists. Both works address large conceptions of democratic life through narrative strategies predicated on ... ...

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... of the British empire, the united complaints of his majesty's subjects in America' . These complaints include not having had answer to previous queries or requests asked of the King by individual state leaders. Therefore Jefferson concludes the American colonies must unite, not aggressively against British dependence or demanding liberation from royal or British parliamentary control, but penned in ... literature. Not only providing an idyllic depiction of independent America, the language used also suggests a need for persuasion. The relentless list of anti-royal complaints, repetitive...

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... their fellow colonists as a worst alternative than the monarchy in England, as summed up by Father Mather Byles in Document D, in which he states his preference for a single tyrant, in King George, as opposed to a multitude of local, smaller tyrants, in the form of other colonists vying for power in a vacuum left if the colonists were free of the British. ...

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