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UNINA9910279734003321 |
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Autore |
Hoffmann Benjamin <1985-> |
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Titolo |
Posthumous America : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century / / Benjamin Hoffmann ; translated by Alan J. Singerman |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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0-271-08182-1 |
0-271-08184-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Travelers' writings, French - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
United States Description and travel Early works to 1800 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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. |
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