description: 'A Fascinating Freudian psychohistory of the 'pastoral impulse' in male American literature from the first documents of exploration to Faulkner and Bellow, and from the Virginia colonies to People's Park....An ambitious book with messages for ecologists and environmentalists as well as feminists.' - Elaine Showalter, Signs
language: English
title: The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters
titlecomplete: The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters
genres: Literary Criticism, Feminism, Nonfiction, 20th Century, Theory, Philosophy, Nature, History, Gender, Environment
ratings_count: 58
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press