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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.


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


“A welcome reexamination of major texts.”

—Stamos Metzidakis, H-France

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