TY - BOOK AU - Hoffmann,Benjamin AU - Singerman,Alan J. ED - Project Muse. TI - Posthumous America : : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century / SN - 9780271081847 PY - 2018///] CY - University Park, Pennsylvania PB - The Pennsylvania State University Press KW - St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, KW - Lezay-Marnezia, Claude-François-Adrien, KW - Chateaubriand, François-Rene, KW - Travelers' writings, French KW - fast KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Modern KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - European KW - French KW - Écrits de voyageurs français KW - Histoire et critique KW - History and criticism KW - United States KW - Description and travel KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Recits de voyages KW - rvmgf KW - Travel writing KW - lcgft KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access N2 - "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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/59028/ ER -