The Paradoxes of Posterity - Paperback

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

Examines the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity.

Author Biography

Benjamin Hoffmann is Associate Professor of Early Modern French Studies at The Ohio State University. His recent publications include Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century and a critical edition of Lezay-Marnésia's Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio, both published by Penn State University Press. Alan J. Singerman is Richardson Professor Emeritus of French at Davidson College, the translator of Benjamin Hoffmann's Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century and Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio, and the editor and translator of Abbé Prévost's novel The Greek Girl's Story, all published by Penn State University Press.