Posthumous America : Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
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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University Park, PA
Penn State University Press
20180515
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