num_pages: 200
description: 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.
language: English
title: Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters
titlecomplete: Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters
genres: Nature, Feminism, History, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Gender, Environment, 20th Century, Nonfiction, Theory
ratings_count: 58
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press