Posthumous America : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century / Benjamin Hoffmann ; translated by Alan J. Singerman.
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- Amerique posthume. English
- St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813
- Lezay-Marnezia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800
- Chateaubriand, François-Rene, vicomte de, 1768-1848
- St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Lezay-Marnezia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Chateaubriand, François-Rene, vicomte de, 1768-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation
- St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Lezay-Marnezia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Chateaubriand, François-Rene, vicomte de, 1768-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Travelers' writings, French
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French
- Écrits de voyageurs français -- Histoire et critique
- Travelers' writings, French -- History and criticism
- United States
- United States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
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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880-02 "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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