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Posthumous America
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Author : Benjamin Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2018-05-10
Posthumous America written by Benjamin Hoffmann and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-10 with History categories.
Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more potent as a driving ideal than in its loss. Examining the paradoxical American paradise depicted in Crèvecœur’s Lettres d’un cultivateur américain (1784); the “uchronotopia”—the imaginary perfect society set in America and based on what France might have become without the Revolution—of Lezay-Marnésia’s Lettres écrites des rives de l’Ohio (1792); and the political and nationalistic motivations behind François-René Chateaubriand’s idealization of America in Voyage en Amérique (1827) and Mémoires d’outre-tombe (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, Posthumous America works to determine when exactly these writers stopped transcribing what they actually observed in America and started giving imaginary accounts of their experiences. A 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. Posthumous America will be invaluable for historians, political scientists, and specialists of literature whose scholarship looks at America through European eyes.
Posthumous America
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Author : Benjamin Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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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.
Securing The Shadow Posthumous Portraiture In America
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Author : Stacy C. Hollander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Securing The Shadow Posthumous Portraiture In America written by Stacy C. Hollander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Death categories.
The History Of America In Which Is Included The Posthumous Volume Etc
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Author : William Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1809
The History Of America In Which Is Included The Posthumous Volume Etc written by William Robertson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1809 with categories.
Posthumous Works
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Author : Robert Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Posthumous Works written by Robert Robinson and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
This compilation of essays and sermons by Robert Robinson, a prominent English Baptist minister of the 18th century, provides insight into the religious thought of the period. From musings on death and the afterlife to reflections on the nature of faith, these writings offer a glimpse into the mind of a respected spiritual leader. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The History Of America In Which Is Included The Posthumous Volume Containing The History Of Virginia To The Year 1688 And Of New England To The Year 1652
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Author : William Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1803
The History Of America In Which Is Included The Posthumous Volume Containing The History Of Virginia To The Year 1688 And Of New England To The Year 1652 written by William Robertson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1803 with categories.
America
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Author : William Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1809
America written by William Robertson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1809 with America categories.
The Posthumous Memoirs Of Br S Cubas
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Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1998-12-10
The Posthumous Memoirs Of Br S Cubas written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-10 with Fiction categories.
"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. It is a novel that has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly and unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sá Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos, this Library of Latin America edition brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order.
Born To Be Posthumous
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Author : Mark Dery
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-11-06
Born To Be Posthumous written by Mark Dery and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes -- but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to Be Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.
John The Posthumous
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Author : Jason Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: OR Books
Release Date : 2013-08-01
John The Posthumous written by Jason Schwartz and has been published by OR Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-01 with Fiction categories.
John the Posthumous exists in between fiction and poetry, elegy and history: a kind of novella in objects, it is an anatomy of marriage and adultery, an interlocking set of fictional histories, and the staccato telling of a murder, perhaps two murders. This is a literary album of a pre-Internet world, focused on physical elements — all of which are tools for either violence or sustenance. Knives, old iron gates, antique houses in flames; Biblical citations, blood and a history of the American bed: the unsettling, half-perceived images, and their precise but alien manipulation by a master of the language will stay with readers. Its themes are familiar — violence, betrayal, failure — its depiction of these utterly original and hauntingly beautiful.