Athenaeum

Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1894
Genre:
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The Lay of the Land

The Lay of the Land
Author: Annette Kolodny
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469619563

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.