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

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By (author): Benjamin Hoffmann

Translated by: Alan J. Singerman

Benjamin Hoffmanns 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 Crèvecur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Crèvecurs Lettres dun cultivateur américain (1784); the uchronotopiathe imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolutionof Lezay-Marnésias Lettres écrites des rives de lOhio (1792); and the political and nationalistic motivations behind François-René Chateaubriands idealization of America in Voyage en Amérique (1827) and Mémoires doutre-tombe (1850), Hoffmann shows how the authors liberties with the truth helped create the idealized and nostalgic representation of America that dominated the collective European consciousness of their times. From a historical perspective, Posthumous America works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences.

A vital contribution to transatlantic studies, this detailed exploration of French perspectives on the colonial era, the War of Independence, and the birth of the American Republic sheds new light on the French fascination with America. Posthumous America will be invaluable for historians, political scientists, and specialists of literature whose scholarship looks at America through European eyes.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 445g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jul 2019
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780271080086

About Benjamin Hoffmann

Benjamin Hoffmann is Assistant Professor of Early Modern French Studies at The Ohio State University. His recent publications include a critical edition of Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésias Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio also published by Penn State University Press as well as four novels in French.About the translator:Alan J. Singerman is Richardson Professor Emeritus of French at Davidson College the translator of Benjamin Hoffmanns critical edition of Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio and the editor and translator of Abbé Prévosts novel The Greek Girls Story both also published by Penn State University Press.

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