Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century - Paperback

by Benjamin Hoffmann (Author), Alan J. Singerman (Translator)

An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann's French monograph L'Amérique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature.

Author Biography

Benjamin 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.