The Land Before Her

Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Annette Kolodny ISBN: 9781469619552
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Publication: July 1, 2014
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English
Author: Annette Kolodny
ISBN: 9781469619552
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication: July 1, 2014
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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