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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Penn State University Press
2021
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| description | 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 paradise depicted in Crèvecœur’s Lettres d’un cultivateur américain (1784); the “uchronotopia” of Lezay-Marnésia’s Lettres écrites des rives de l’Ohio (1800)—the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution; and the political and nationalistic motivations behind Chateaubriand’s idealization of America in Voyage en Amérique (1827) and Mémoires d’outre-tombe (1850). From an historical perspective, Posthumous Americas works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-338922025-07-31T02:07:43Z Posthumous America Hoffmann, Benjamin 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 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 paradise depicted in Crèvecœur’s Lettres d’un cultivateur américain (1784); the “uchronotopia” of Lezay-Marnésia’s Lettres écrites des rives de l’Ohio (1800)—the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution; and the political and nationalistic motivations behind Chateaubriand’s idealization of America in Voyage en Amérique (1827) and Mémoires d’outre-tombe (1850). From an historical perspective, Posthumous Americas works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-07-10 23:55 2019-06-20 03:00:29 2020-04-01T12:35:46Z 2018-05-15 book 1000258 OCN: 1051779931 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29687 9780271080079 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33892 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29687/1/1000258.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29687/1/1000258.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29687/1/1000258.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29687/1/1000258.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29687/1/1000258.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29687/1/1000258.pdf Penn State University Press 10.5325/j.ctv3znxwd 10.5325/j.ctv3znxwd e4e05b94-0f85-49a1-ba66-543b1dd40087 Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780271080079 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2017: Front list Collection University Park, PA 101739 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection open access |
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