The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860UNC Press Books, 1984 - 293 Seiten 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 unsp |
Inhalt
1 Captives in Paradise | 17 |
2 Gardens in the Wilderness | 35 |
3 The Lady in the Cave | 55 |
At Home in the Woods | 68 |
Promoting the Prairies | 93 |
Recovering Our Mothers Garden | 112 |
Emigrants Guide to a Failed Eden | 131 |
8 The Domestic Fantasy Goes West | 161 |
Book Ends | 178 |
Paradise Regained Paradise Lost | 200 |
A New Frontier Beckons A Transitional Meditation | 227 |
Notes | 243 |
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The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 Annette Kolodny Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2014 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Adventures Alice Cary American beauty Belden Benjamin Ives Gilman Boston brother captivity narrative Caroline Kirkland Clovernook colony Cummins Daniel Boone daughter diary domestic fictionists earlier Edward Somers Eliza Farnham Eliza Lucas Pinckney emigrants England fantasy farm father female fiction Filson Flint flowers forest frontier garden Hannah History hunter husband Ibid Illinois imaginative Indian John journey land landscape letter literary living log cabin Mabel Vaughan male Margaret Fuller Maria Maria Susanna Cummins Mary Austin Mary Clavers Mary Jemison Mary Rowlandson Massachusetts Mississippi mother narrator never nonetheless novel Ohio Oregon overland Panther Captivity paradise Pinckney pioneer prairie Puritan Quoted readers Rebecca Bryan reprint River Rosalie Rowlandson Sarah Seaver settlement settlers sister Slotkin Southworth story symbolic Texas tion trees Trist Trumbull University Press vols western westward white woman wild wilderness women woods writing York young
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