Posthumous America

Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past. It investigates the reasons why, for a group of French writers of the 18th and 19th centuries, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. For example, Hoffmann examines the paradoxical American par...

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Main Author:	Hoffmann, Benjamin
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Penn State University Press 2021
Subjects:	Literature France François-René de Chateaubriand Indigenous peoples of the Americas Lezay New World United States thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Online Access:	1000258
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