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Posthumous America : literary reinventions of America at the end of the eighteenth century
Amérique posthume. English
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"An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann's French monograph L'Amérique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature"--Provided by...
"An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann's French monograph L'Amérique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Benjamin Hoffmann ; translated by Alan J. Singerman
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- English
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- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
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- 244 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780271081847, 9780271081823, 9780271080079, 0271081848, 0271081821, 0271080078
- OCLC
- on1019839317, on1222788550, on1035947418
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : new world paradoxes -- Saint-John de Crèvecœur and nostalgia for colonial America -- Lezay-Marnésia and nostalgia for the American golden age -- Chateaubriand and nostalgia for French America -- Conclusion : America, a mobile sign
Subjects
- St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
- Travelers' writings, French -- History and criticism.