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Record Nr.

UNINA9910279734003321

Autore

Hoffmann Benjamin <1985->

Titolo

Posthumous America : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century / / Benjamin Hoffmann ; translated by Alan J. Singerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2018

ISBN

0-271-08182-1

0-271-08184-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

917.304/33

Soggetti

Travelers' writings, French - History and criticism

Electronic books.

United States Description and travel Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : new world paradoxes -- Saint-John de Crevecoeur and nostalgia for colonial America -- Lezay-Marnesia and nostalgia for the American golden age -- Chateaubriand and nostalgia for French America -- Conclusion : America, a mobile sign.

Sommario/riassunto

"An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann's French monograph L'Amerique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature"--Provided by publisher.