{"product_id":"posthumous-america-literary-reinventions-of-america-at-the-end-of-the-eighteenth-century-paperback","title":"Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Hoffmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlan J. Singerman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Hoffmann's \u003ci\u003ePosthumous America \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur 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 Crèvecoeur's \u003ci\u003eLettres d'un cultivateur américain\u003c\/i\u003e (1784); the \"uchronotopia\"--the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution--of Lezay-Marnésia's \u003ci\u003eLettres écrites des rives de l'Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e (1792); and the political and nationalistic motivations behind François-René Chateaubriand's idealization of America in \u003ci\u003eVoyage en Amérique\u003c\/i\u003e (1827) and \u003ci\u003eMémoires d'outre-tombe\u003c\/i\u003e (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, \u003ci\u003ePosthumous America\u003c\/i\u003e works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003ci\u003ePosthumous America\u003c\/i\u003e will be invaluable for historians, political scientists, and specialists of literature whose scholarship looks at America through European eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin Hoffmann \u003c\/strong\u003eis Assistant Professor of Early Modern French Studies at The Ohio State University. His recent publications include a critical edition of Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia's \u003ci\u003eLetters Written from the Banks of the Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Penn State University Press, as well as four novels in French.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the translator: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAlan J. Singerman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Richardson Professor Emeritus of French at Davidson College, the translator of Benjamin Hoffmann's critical edition of \u003ci\u003eLetters Written from the Banks of the Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor and translator of Abbé Prévost's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Greek Girl's Story\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Penn State University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67617704837394,"sku":"9780271080086","price":71.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/qJGeOKmXt-9780271080086.webp?v=1792039911","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/posthumous-america-literary-reinventions-of-america-at-the-end-of-the-eighteenth-century-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}