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Posthumous America

Name: Posthumous America
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780271080079
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PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271080079

Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century

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By Benjamin Hoffmann, Translated by Alan J. Singerman
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: July 14, 2018
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Pages: 256

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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.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: New World Paradoxes

1. Saint-John de Crèvecoeur and Nostalgia for Colonial America

2. Lezay-Marnésia and Nostalgia for the American Golden Age

3. Chateaubriand and Nostalgia for French America

Conclusion: America, a Mobile Sign

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“A welcome reexamination of major texts.”

—Stamos Metzidakis, H-France

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