The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860 by Annette Kolodny

The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860

Annette Kolodny

314 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land,...

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