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Posthumous America : literary reinventions of America at the end of the eighteenth century
\"An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann's French monograph L'Amâerique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature\"--Provided by publisher.
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Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio
First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia and the utopia he attempted to create in what is now Ohio.
Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might have become without the Revolution, Lezay-Marnésia bought more than twenty thousand acres of land along the banks of the Ohio River from the Scioto Company, which promised French aristocrats a fertile, conflict-free refuge. But hostilities between the U.S. Army and the Native American tribes who still lived on the land prevented the marquis from taking possession. Ruined and on the verge of madness, Lezay-Marnésia returned to France just as the Revolution was taking a more radical turn. He barely escaped the guillotine before dying a few years later in poverty and desperation.
This edition of the Letters, introduced and edited by Benjamin Hoffmann and superbly translated by Alan J. Singerman, presents the work for the first time since the beginning of the nineteenth century—and the first time ever in English. The volume features a rich collection of supplementary documents, including texts by Lezay-Marnésia's son, Albert de Lezay-Marnésia, and the American novelist Hugh Henry Brackenridge. This fresh perspective on the young United States as it was represented in French literature casts new light on a captivating and tumultuous period in the history of two nations.
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Posthumous America
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.
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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 paradise depicted in CrèvecÅ\"ur's Lettres d'un cultivateur américain (1784); the \"uchronotopiaâ€_x009d_ 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.
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Il prefetto Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia e la scuola normale di Strasburgo del 1810
The pedagogical experiences that took place in the years of the French Revolution laid the foundations for the creation of new educational institutions with the aim of training a generation of teachers prepared and attentive to new teaching methods. In 1810, thanks to the initiative of the prefect Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia, an upholder of the dignity of the civil service and a catalyst for Austro-German pedagogical innovations, the normal school of Strasbourg came to life. From the Rhine border, this became the model for subsequent foundations in the Kingdom of France. Keywords. Normal School--Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia--Strasbourg, France, Early Nineteenth Century
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Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio
First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the
Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French
aristocrat Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia and the utopia he
attempted to create in what is now Ohio.
Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might
have become without the Revolution, Lezay-Marnésia bought more than
twenty thousand acres of land along the banks of the Ohio River
from the Scioto Company, which promised French aristocrats a
fertile, conflict-free refuge. But hostilities between the U.S.
Army and the Native American tribes who still lived on the land
prevented the marquis from taking possession. Ruined and on the
verge of madness, Lezay-Marnésia returned to France just as the
Revolution was taking a more radical turn. He barely escaped the
guillotine before dying a few years later in poverty and
desperation.
This edition of the Letters , introduced and edited by
Benjamin Hoffmann and superbly translated by Alan J. Singerman,
presents the work for the first time since the beginning of the
nineteenth century-and the first time ever in English. The volume
features a rich collection of supplementary documents, including
texts by Lezay-Marnésia's son, Albert de Lezay-Marnésia, and the
American novelist Hugh Henry Brackenridge. This fresh perspective
on the young United States as it was represented in French
literature casts new light on a captivating and tumultuous period
in the history of two nations.
eBook
