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The land before her : fantasy and experience of the American frontiers, 1630-1860 / Annette Kolodny.
LIBRA E179.5 .K64 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kolodny, Annette, 1941-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women pioneers--United States.
- Women pioneers.
- United States.
- Frontier and pioneer life--United States.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Women in popular culture--United States.
- Women in popular culture.
- Women in literature.
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- Territorial expansion.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1984]
- Summary:
- 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."
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [273]-282.
- ISBN:
- 0807815713
- OCLC:
- 9575125
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