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

Travelers' writings, French --- History and criticism. --- Chateaubriand, François-Rene, --- Lezay-Marnezia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- United States --- Description and travel --- Early works to 1800. --- Saint John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, --- De Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John, --- Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John de, --- Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de, --- Saint John de Crèvecoeur, --- Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean de, --- Saint John de Crèvecoeur, Michel Guillaume, --- Saint John, J. Hector, --- Crèvecoeur, Hector Saint John de, --- Membre adoptif de la nation Onéida, --- St. John, James Hector, --- St. John de Creve Cœur, --- Cœur, St. John de Creve, --- Ecuyer, W. S., --- St. John de Crèvecoeur, Hector, --- Crevecoeur, St.-John de, --- Crevecoeur, Saint-John de, --- Кревекер, Сент Джон де, --- Kreveker, Sent Dzhon de, --- De Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- Lezay-Marnésia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- Lezay-Marnézia, C.-F.-A. --- Lezay-Marnézia, Cl. Fr.-Ad. --- Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- Chateaubriand --- Chateaubriand, F.-A. de --- Chateaubriand, F. A. von, --- Chateaubriand, François-Auguste de, --- Chateaubriand, François Auguste René, --- Chateaubriand, --- De Chateaubriand, François-René, --- Satōmprian, --- Satōvrian, Phrantzeskos Augoustos, --- Shatobrīan, F., --- Shatobrīon, Frant︠s︡isk Avgust, --- U.S.A. --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- USA --- US --- Arhab --- Ar. ha-B. --- Artsot ha-Berit --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- ABSh --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- ABŞ --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Forente stater --- Spojené staty americké --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Yhdysvallat --- Verenigde Staten --- Egyesült Államok --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Estados Unidos de América --- United States of America --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- SShA --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- VSA --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Estados Unidos --- EE.UU. --- Stany Zjednoczone --- ĒPA --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- ZSA --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mei guo --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- U.S. --- America (Republic) --- Amirika Carékat --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- VS --- ولايات المتحدة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- Istadus Unidus --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Bí-kok --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- AQSh --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- Yunaeted Stet --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- САЩ --- SASht --- Съединените щати --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Америка (Republic) --- Amerika (Republic) --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Stati Uniti --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ē.P.A. --- Usono --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- FS --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Stâts Unîts --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- S.U.A. --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- Mî-koet --- 미국 --- Miguk --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Chateaubriand, François-René --- François-Auguste-René --- de Chateaubriand, François René --- Chateaubriand, François René de --- Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene de --- de Chateaubriand, François Auguste René, --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Lezay-Marnézia, Claude-François-Adrien, --- Chateaubriand, François-René, --- St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector, --- Spojené obce severoamerické --- États-Unis --- É.-U. --- ÉU

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"An English translation of the Abbe Prevost's 1740 novel The Greek Girl's Story. Includes foreword by Jean Sgard, notes, and appendices"--Provided by publisher.

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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.