How do the literatures of America's later Colonial and Revolutionary eras reflect contemporary political, economic, and cultural changes?" How do those works of literature written during the latter part of the Colonial era, in the years leading to and including the American Revolution, and in the immediate aftermath of that conflict (e.g. Paine's Common Sense, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, Adams' Letters, St. John De Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer) reflect the cultural and political changes occurring in what would soon become the new American nation?