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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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oapen-20.500.12657-296872023-01-31T18:45:35Z Posthumous America Hoffmann, Benjamin Literature France François-René de Chateaubriand Indigenous peoples of the Americas Lezay New World United States bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & 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. 2018-07-10 23:55 2019-06-20 03:00:29 2020-04-01T12:35:46Z 2020-04-01T12:35:46Z 2018-05-15 book 1000258 OCN: 1051779931 9780271080079 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29687 eng application/pdf n/a 1000258.pdf Penn State University Press 10.5325/j.ctv3znxwd 101739 10.5325/j.ctv3znxwd 09c386a3-3703-4269-ad0d-5c31b279590d b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780271080079 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) University Park, PA 101739 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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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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