The Land Before Her
Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860
Annette Kolodny
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/2014
Pages: 314
Subject: History, Social Science, Literary Criticism
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78081E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469619552
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.