Posthumous America - Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century

An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann's French monograph L'Amérique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature.

About the author

Benjamin Hoffmann is 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 Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio, also published by Penn State University Press, as well as four novels in French.About the translator:

Summary

An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann’s French monograph L’Amérique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Hoffmann, Benjamin (The Ohio State University) Hoffmann
• Assisted by: Alan J. Singerman (Translation), Alan J. (Davidson College) Singerman (Translation), Singerman Alan J. (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2018
• EAN: 9780271080079
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08007-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; USA, Diaries, letters & journals, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, American War of Independence, C 1700 To C 1800