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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Benjamin Hoffmann (The Ohio State University) , Alan J. Singerman (Davidson College)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 22.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780271080079ISBN 10: 0271080078 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 May 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: New World Paradoxes 1. Saint-John de Crèvecoeur and Nostalgia for Colonial America 2. Lezay-Marnésia and Nostalgia for the American Golden Age 3. Chateaubriand and Nostalgia for French America Conclusion: America, a Mobile Sign Appendix Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsBenjamin Hoffman presents, with wonderful insight, a portrait of a young American nation by three French writers. The particular oddity of their perspective, hence the delightful originality of this work, is that what they depict in their various ways is a society and polity that they know to be no longer valid-for which Hoffman coins the term of `posthumous' narrative, sometimes tainted with nostalgia or outright fiction, in an already-archaic American landscape. -Philip Stewart, author of Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century Benjamin Hoffman presents, with wonderful insight, a portrait of a young American nation by three French writers. The particular oddity of their perspective, hence the delightful originality of this work, is that what they depict in their various ways is a society and polity that they know to be no longer valid--for which Hoffman coins the term of 'posthumous' narrative, sometimes tainted with nostalgia or outright fiction, in an already-archaic American landscape. --Philip Stewart, author of Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century Benjamin Hoffman presents, with wonderful insight, a portrait of a young American nation by three French writers. The particular oddity of their perspective, hence the delightful originality of this work, is that what they depict in their various ways is a society and polity that they know to be no longer valid--for which Hoffman coins the term of 'posthumous' narrative, sometimes tainted with nostalgia or outright fiction, in an already-archaic American landscape. --Philip Stewart, author of Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century Author InformationBenjamin 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: Alan J. Singerman is Richardson Professor Emeritus of French at Davidson College, the translator of Benjamin Hoffmann’s critical edition of Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio, and the editor and translator of Abbé Prévost’s novel The Greek Girl’s Story, both also published by Penn State University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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