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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Hoofdauteur: Hoffmann, Benjamin (auth)
Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: University Park, PA Penn State University Press 2018
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