Lay of the Land Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters

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.Kolodny, Annette is the author of 'Lay of the Land Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters', published 1984 under ISBN 9780807841181 and ISBN 0807841188.