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Author Hoffmann, Benjamin, 1985- author.

Title Posthumous America : literary reinventions of America at the end of the eighteenth century / Benjamin Hoffmann ; translated by Alan J. Singerman.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 electronic resource (244 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-225) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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.
"An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann's French monograph L'Ame⁺ѓrique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature"--Provided by publisher
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Subject Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848.
Criticism and interpretation.
Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800.
St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 -- Criticism and interpretation.
St. John de Cre⁺ђvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 -- Criticism and interpretation.
St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813.
Chateaubriand, François-Rene, vicomte de, 1768-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lezay-Marnezia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800 -- Criticism and interpretation.
St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Travelers' writings, French -- History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, French.
United States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
United States.
Chronological Term Early works to 1800
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Travel writing.
Travel writing.
Récits de voyages.
Added Author Singerman, Alan J., translator.
Added Title Amérique posthume. English
Ame⁺ѓrique posthume. English
Other Form: Print version: Posthumous America University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018] 9780271080079 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2017060786
ISBN 9780271080079 cloth : alkaline paper
9780271081823 (electronic book)
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0271081848 (electronic book)
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