{"product_id":"posthumous-america-benjamin-hoffmann-9780271080086","title":"Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Hoffmann's \u003ci\u003ePosthumous America \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor writers such as John Hector St. John de Cr?vecoeur and Claude-Fran?ois de Lezay-Marn?sia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Cr?vecoeur's \u003ci\u003eLettres d'un cultivateur am?ricain\u003c\/i\u003e (1784); the \"uchronotopia\"--the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution--of Lezay-Marn?sia's \u003ci\u003eLettres ?crites des rives de l'Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e (1792); and the political and nationalistic motivations behind Fran?ois-Ren? Chateaubriand's idealization of America in \u003ci\u003eVoyage en Am?rique\u003c\/i\u003e (1827) and \u003ci\u003eM?moires d'outre-tombe\u003c\/i\u003e (1850), Hoffmann shows how the authors' liberties with the truth helped create the idealized and nostalgic representation of America that dominated the collective European consciousness of their times. From a historical perspective, \u003ci\u003ePosthumous America\u003c\/i\u003e works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vital contribution to transatlantic studies, this detailed exploration of French perspectives on the colonial era, the War of Independence, and the birth of the American Republic sheds new light on the French fascination with America. \u003ci\u003ePosthumous America\u003c\/i\u003e will be invaluable for historians, political scientists, and specialists of literature whose scholarship looks at America through European eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Hoffmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271080086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271080086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Benjamin Hoffmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46866986303743,"sku":"9780271080086","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0292e38f-f6fa-40ec-87b2-e27be845f475.jpg?v=1747453618","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/posthumous-america-benjamin-hoffmann-9780271080086","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}