Title Posthumous America Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century / Benjamin Hoffmann

Published Penn State University Press

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : new world paradoxes -- Saint-John de Crèvecēur and nostalgia for colonial America -- Lezay-Marnésia and nostalgia for the American golden age -- Chateaubriand and nostalgia for French America -- Conclusion : America, a mobile sign Summary 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 Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 -- Criticism and interpretation Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800 -- Criticism and interpretation Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Chateaubriand, François-Rene, vicomte de, 1768-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation Lezay-Marnezia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800 -- Criticism and interpretation St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813 -- Criticism and interpretation Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848. fast (OCoLC)fst00052649 Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, marquis de, 1735-1800. fast (OCoLC)fst00283631 St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, 1735-1813. fast (OCoLC)fst00091434 Subject Travelers' writings, French -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General. Travel. Travelers' writings, French. SUBJECT United States -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139994 Subject United States. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early works. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780271080079 0271080078

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