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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.



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“Benjamin Hoffmann presents, with wonderful insight, a portrait of a young American nation by three French writers. The particular oddity of their perspective, hence the delightful originality of this work, is that what they depict in their various ways is a society and polity that they know to be no longer valid—for which Hoffmann coins the term of ‘posthumous’ narrative, sometimes tainted with nostalgia or outright fiction, in an already-archaic American landscape.”

—Philip Stewart,author of Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century


“A welcome reexamination of major texts.”

—Stamos Metzidakis H-France



Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: New World Paradoxes

1. Saint-John de Crèvecoeur and Nostalgia for Colonial America

2. Lezay-Marnésia and Nostalgia for the American Golden Age

3. Chateaubriand and Nostalgia for French America

Conclusion: America, a Mobile Sign

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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    A Paperback / softback by Benjamin Hoffmann, Alan J. Singerman

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      Publisher Pennsylvania State University Press
      Published 15 July 2019
      ISBN-13 9780271080086
      978-0271080086
      ISBN-10 0271080086
      Also in:
      Published diaries, letters and journals ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Military History Specific wars and military campaigns

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review

      “Benjamin Hoffmann presents, with wonderful insight, a portrait of a young American nation by three French writers. The particular oddity of their perspective, hence the delightful originality of this work, is that what they depict in their various ways is a society and polity that they know to be no longer valid—for which Hoffmann coins the term of ‘posthumous’ narrative, sometimes tainted with nostalgia or outright fiction, in an already-archaic American landscape.”

      —Philip Stewart,author of Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century


      “A welcome reexamination of major texts.”

      —Stamos Metzidakis H-France



      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: New World Paradoxes

      1. Saint-John de Crèvecoeur and Nostalgia for Colonial America

      2. Lezay-Marnésia and Nostalgia for the American Golden Age

      3. Chateaubriand and Nostalgia for French America

      Conclusion: America, a Mobile Sign

      Appendix

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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