Hoffmann, Benjamin.

Posthumous America : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (253 pages)

COVER front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: New World Paradoxes -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Saint-John de Crèvecoeur and Nostalgia for Colonial America -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Lezay-Marnésia and Nostalgia for the American Golden Age -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Chateaubriand and Nostalgia for French America -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Conclusion: America, a Mobile Sign -- Notes to Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- index.

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Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien,-marquis de,-1735-1800-Criticism and interpretation.
Chateaubriand, François-René,-vicomte de,-1768-1848-Criticism and interpretation.
St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector,-1735-1813-Criticism and interpretation.
Travelers' writings, French-History and criticism.
United States-Description and travel-Early works to 1800.


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