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Title

  • Posthumous America : literary reinventions of America at the end of the eighteenth century

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.

Names

  • Hoffmann, Benjamin, 1985- author.
  • Singerman, Alan J., translator.

Created / Published

  • University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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.

Headings

  • -  Chateaubriand, François-René,--vicomte de,--1768-1848--Criticism and interpretation
  • -  Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien,--marquis de,--1735-1800--Criticism and interpretation
  • -  St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector,--1735-1813--Criticism and interpretation
  • -  Travelers' writings, French--History and criticism
  • -  United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-225) and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (244 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E164

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020715188

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Hoffmann, Benjamin, Author. Posthumous America: literary reinventions of America at the end of the eighteenth century. translateds by Singerman, Alan J [University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, ©, 2018] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020715188/.

APA citation style:

Hoffmann, B. (2018) Posthumous America: literary reinventions of America at the end of the eighteenth century. Singerman, A. J., trans [University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020715188/.

MLA citation style:

Hoffmann, Benjamin, Author. Posthumous America: literary reinventions of America at the end of the eighteenth century. trans by Singerman, Alan J [University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, ©, 2018] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020715188/>.