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Posthumous America : literary reinventions of America at the end of the eighteenth century /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffmann, Benjamin, 1985- (Author)
Other Authors: Singerman, Alan J. (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
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.
United States > Description and travel > Early works to 1800.
Travelers' writings, French > History and criticism.
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