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Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century.

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Benjamin Hoffmann's Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent...

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Main Author: Hoffmann, Benjamin
Other Authors: Singerman, Alan J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: West Orange, NJ : Pennsylvania State University Press.
Subjects:
Chateaubriand, François-Rene, > vicomte de, > 1768-1848 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lezay-Marnezia, Claude-François-Adrien, > marquis de, > 1735-1800 > Criticism and interpretation.
St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, > 1735-1813 > Criticism and interpretation.
Travelers' writings, French > History and criticism.
Écrits de voyageurs français > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century.
Travelers' writings, French
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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by Hoffmann, Benjamin, 1985-
Published 2018
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