The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and LettersUNC Press Books, 1975 - 185페이지 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 contine |
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Unearthing Herstory An Introduction | 3 |
Surveying the Virgin Land The Documents of Exploration and Colonization 15001740 | 10 |
Laying Waste Her Fields of Plenty The Eighteenth Century | 26 |
The Poetry of Philip Freneau | 29 |
Crevecoeurs Letters and Sketches | 52 |
Transitions | 67 |
Singing Her Past and Singing Her Praises The Nineteenth Century | 71 |
John James Audubon | 74 |
The Revolutionary War Romances of William Gilmore Simms | 115 |
The Closed Frontier | 132 |
Making It with Paradise The Twentieth Century | 138 |
A Meditation on Metaphor | 148 |
Notes | 161 |
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The Leatherstocking Novels of James Fenimore Cooper | 89 |
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