Download or read book Posthumous America written by Benjamin Hoffmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill Collected by Horace Walpole written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1842* with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Renowned Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Manuscripts Formed by the Late Alfred Morrison Esq of Fonthill and Now the Property of Mrs Alfred Morrison Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Sotheby Wilkinson Hodge Auctioneers written by Alfred Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book In the Workshop of History written by François Furet and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those concerned with the practice of history as a discipline and as an intellectual activity will be intrigued by the view of history that François Furet offers in this collection of essays. After twenty-five years as a professional historian at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and in the ranks of the Annales school, Furet sets out to reexamine the methodological and intellectual cleavages that exist today among historians. Furet views history as a field bounded at each end by two ideal types. One end is concerned with the history of periods and with the empiricism of "facts" rather than received ideas. At the other end is problem-oriented history, which substitutes for the supposed coherence of a "period" the analytical examination of a question. Furet's own work leans toward the second, more conceptually oriented kind of historiography. The essays in this volume, most of them never before published in English, illustrate the breadth of his approach. Furet's discussion ranges through Tocqueville's conceptual system to present-day America, from the origins of history in France to the Jewish experience in the late twentieth century. Among Furet's recurrent themes is the contention that the historian constructs the object or field of his research rather than receiving it from the past.

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Download or read book Sojourners in a Strange Land written by Florence C. Hsia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesuit missionaries astonished the Chinese with maps, clocks astrolabes and armillaries. Florence Hsia examines ways in which the Jesuits used Western science to help establish a credible presence in China in the 16th-18th centuries.

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Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature Volume 2 1660 1800 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.