02119oam 22005054a 450 991027973400332120230621135340.00-271-08182-10-271-08184-810.1515/9780271081847(CKB)4100000005044145(OCoLC)1035947418(MdBmJHUP)muse69023(MiAaPQ)EBC6224787(ScCtBLL)fd7f938a-7559-47a0-a2aa-6e5e4a88c5b7(DE-B1597)584133(DE-B1597)9780271081847(EXLCZ)99410000000504414520180110h20182018 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPosthumous AmericaLiterary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century /Benjamin Hoffmann ; translated by Alan J. SingermanUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :The Pennsylvania State University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource0-271-08007-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Travelers' writings, FrenchHistory and criticismUnited StatesDescription and travelEarly works to 1800Electronic books. Travelers' writings, FrenchHistory and criticism.917.304/33Hoffmann Benjamin1985-984660Singerman Alan J.MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910279734003321Posthumous America2249971UNINA