The green breast of the new world : landscape, gender, and American fiction /
Westling, Louise Hutchings.
Athens : University of Georgia Press,
c1996.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index.
Lost innocence -- European tradition and figuration of a new world -- Pastoral ambivalence in Emerson and Thoreau -- Willa Cather's prairie epics -- Pastoral regression in Hemingway and Faulkner -- Eudora Welty's sacramental vision -- Brave new world.
American fiction
Landscapes in literature.
Pastoral literature, American
American prose literature
Fiction
Human body in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.