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

Uniform titleAmérique posthume. English
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 212-225) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017060786
ISBN9780271080079 (cloth : alk. paper)