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 J
Benjamin Hoffmann’s L’Amérique posthume examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This Engl
First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-Francois de Lezay-Marnesia and the utopia he attempted to create i