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
| 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.
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.
