The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860

Type

Book

Authors

Annette Kolodny

ISBN 10

0807841110

ISBN 13

9780807841112

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Feminist, Social Sciences, Women Writers, Literature, United States, Gender Studies, Goergetown

Description

To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated. Both intellectual and cultural history, this volume continues Kolodny's study of frontier mythology begun in The Lay of the Land. - from Amzon

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