what genre is it from?
Documentary,  agricultural, etc
Letters from an American Farmer
The text incorporates a broad range of genres, ranging from documentary on local agricultural practices to sociological observations of the places visited and their inhabitants; Norman Grabo describes it as "an example of the American tradition of book-as-anthology and authorship-as-editing". 
hector st john crevecoeur letters from an american farmer Letters from an American Farmer is a series of letters written by French American writer J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, first published in 1782 how many letters were there? Twelve
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Letters from an American Farmer [SEP] Structure, genre and style
Whereas early readings of the text tended to consider it "as a straightforward natural and social history of young America", critics now see it as combining elements of fiction and non-fiction in what Thomas Philbrick has termed a "complex artistry". In addition to its usual classification as a form of epistolary, philosophical travel narrative—comparable to Montesquieu's "Persian Letters"—the text has been considered as a novel, and as a romance.