The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860

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.

Author: Annette Kolodny
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/17/1984
Pages: 314
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.03h x 5.93w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780807841112

About the Author
Kolodny, Annette: - Annette Kolodny is former Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. She currently teaches courses on ecocriticism and the American frontiers at the University of Arizona.