The Lay of the Land

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ISBN: 9780807841181 | 0807841188
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/1/1984

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An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin, as Temptress, as the Ravished), and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis.

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Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Unearthing Herstory an Introduction	p. 3
Surveying the Virgin Land: The Documents of Exploration and Colonization, 1500-1740	p. 10
Laying Waste Her Fields of Plenty the Eighteenth Century	p. 26
Singing Her Past and Singing Her Praises: The Nineteenth Century	p. 71
Making It with Paradise the Twentieth Century	p. 138
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 175
Index	p. 181
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