Posthumous America : : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century / / Benjamin Hoffmann.
Benjamin Hoffmann's Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 3 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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