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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffmann, Benjamin, 1985- author.

Contributor:

Singerman, Alan J., translator.

Standardized Title:

Amérique posthume. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813--Criticism and interpretation.

St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector.

Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800--Criticism and interpretation.

Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien.

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848--Criticism and interpretation.

Chateaubriand, François-René.

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848.

Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800.

St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

United States.

Travelers' writings, French--History and criticism.

Travelers' writings, French.

Physical Description:

244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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.

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.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-225) and index.

ISBN:

9780271080079

0271080078

OCLC:

1019839317