TY  - GEN
AU  - Hoffmann,Benjamin
TI  - Posthumous America : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
SN  - j.ctv3znxwd
PY  - 2018///0515
CY  - University Park, PA
PB  - Penn State University Press
KW  - Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literature
KW  - France
KW  - François-René de Chateaubriand
KW  - Indigenous peoples of the Americas
KW  - Lezay
KW  - New World
KW  - United States
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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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