"It will be praised and condemned,
but it cannot be ignored.
"-c.
HUGH HOLMAN
The
Lay
of
the
Land
METAPHOR AS EXPERIENCE AND HISTORY
IN AMERICAN LIFE AND LETTERS
by Annette Kolodny
Why is the earth a female-a Virgin, a Mother, a Temp–
tress, the Ravished? This extraordinary book responds
by unearthing "herstory."
An examination of the recurrent "land-as-woman" met–
aphor in American pastoral literature, this study focuses
on the dangerous results of man's subconscious impulse
to experience the landscape as feminine.
Written for Americanists, literary scholars, psycholin–
guists, feminists, ecologists, and other land-lovers.
The University
if
North Carolina Press
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
$8.95
