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

Publication Info.	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848. (OCoLC)fst00052649
	Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800. (OCoLC)fst00283631
	St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813. (OCoLC)fst00091434
	United States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
	Travelers' writings, French -- History and criticism.
	LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
	Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
	Travelers' writings, French. (OCoLC)fst01155743
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General.
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
Added Author	Singerman, Alan J., translator.
Added Title	Amérique posthume. English
Other Form:	Print version: Hoffmann, Benjamin, 1985- Amérique posthume. English. Posthumous America. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018] 9780271080079 (DLC) 2017060786 (OCoLC)1019839317
ISBN	9780271081823 (electronic bk.)
	0271081821 (electronic bk.)
	9780271081847 (electronic bk.)
	0271081848 (electronic bk.)
	9780271080079
	0271080078

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