The Lay of the Land
Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters| By: | Annette Kolodny |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780807841181 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781469619569 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1975 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.