Chateaubriand's Travels in America, presented here in its first
modern translation, was a reflection of the attitudes of his epoch
toward the New World. And at the same time, because of his enormous
literary reputation, it has continued to be a major source of
European impressions about America. The America portrayed by
Chateaubriand was much more a product of his reading and his
imagination than of his actual visit. (His supposed itinerary
included a trip up the Hudson to Albany, a visit to Niagara Falls
via the Mohawk Trail, a trip down the Mississippi to the Natchez
country, and even a visit to the Carolinas and the southern tip of
Florida). Though the Frenchman of the nineteenth century could have
obtained a much truer picture of America in any number of realistic
works, he still chose the poetic evocation of Chateaubriand because
he shared the same temperament, the same prejudices, and the same
particular view of the world.
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