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Preface / Ix -- Abbreviations / Xiii -- 1. Unearthing Herstory An Introduction -- 2. Surveying The Virgin Land -- The Documents Of Exploration And Colonization, 1500 -- 1740 -- 3. Laying Waste Her Fields Of Plenty -- The Eighteenth Century -- The Visionary Line: The Poetry Of Philip Freneau -- The Dubious Pleasures Of An American Farmer: Crevecoeur's Letters And Sketches -- Transitions -- 4. Singing Her Past And Singing Her Praises -- The Nineteeth Century -- The Country As It Oughtta' Be: John James Audubon -- Natty Bumppo As The American Dream: The Leatherstocking Novels Of James Fenimore Cooper -- Every Mother's Son : The Revolutionary War Romances Of Willam Gilmore Simms -- The Closed Frontier -- 5. Making It With Paradise -- The Twentieth Century -- Some Thoughts For Our Bicentennial -- A Meditation On Metaphor -- A Meditiation On Metaphor. By Annette Kolodny. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 175-180.

Author

Annette Kolodny

Publisher

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807812419

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Nature

Rating

3.78 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14