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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 an Original And Highly Unusual Psycholinguistic Study Of American Literature And Culture From 1584 To 1860, This Volume Focuses On The Metaphor Of 'land-as-woman.' It Is The First Systematic Documentation Of The Recurrent Responses To The American Continent As A Feminine Entity (as Mother, As Virgin, As Temptress, As The Ravished), And It Is

Author

Kolodny, Annette, Annette Kolodny, Mario Budinski

Publisher

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807812419

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Philosophy, History

Rating

3.78 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14