Posthumous America : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century / Benjamin Hoffmann ; translated by Alan J. Singerman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©[2018]Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271081847
Uniform titles: Ame⁺ѓrique posthume. English Uniform titles:
  • Amerique posthume. English
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Contents:
Introduction : new world paradoxes -- Saint-John de Crevecoeur and nostalgia for colonial America -- Lezay-Marnesia and nostalgia for the American golden age -- Chateaubriand and nostalgia for French America -- Conclusion : America, a mobile sign.
Summary: "An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann's French monograph L'Amerique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature"--Provided by publisher.
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Introduction : new world paradoxes -- Saint-John de Crevecoeur and nostalgia for colonial America -- Lezay-Marnesia and nostalgia for the American golden age -- Chateaubriand and nostalgia for French America -- Conclusion : America, a mobile sign.

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