Author: Kolodny, Annette
Title: The Lay of the Land. Metaphor as Experience & History in American Life & Letters
Description: Chapel Hill, Univ.of North Carolina Press, (1975). orig.cloth.. 23x15cm, xiii, 185 pp. Minor binding corner bumps, a chip missing from dustwrapper, VG. ¶ Contents: Unearthing Herstory; Surveying the Virgin Land: The Documents of Exploration & Colonization, 1500 - 1740; Laying Waste Her Fields of Plenty:The Eignteenth Century: The Visionary Line: The Poetry of Philip Freneau; The Dubious Pleasures of an American Farmer: Crevecoeur's Letters & Sketches; Transitions; Singing Her Past & Singing Her Praises: The Nineteenth Century: The Country as It Outhtta' Be: John James Audubon; Natty Bumpo as the American Dream: The Leatherstocking Novels of James Fenimore Cooper; Every Mother's Son: The Revolutionary War Romances of William Gilmore Simms; The Closed Frontier; Making It with Paradise: The Twentieth Century: Some Thoughts for Our Bicentennial; A Meditation on Metaphor.

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