The Land Before Her
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The Land Before Her

Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860

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The Land Before Her

Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860

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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, an unspoiled Eve to be taken, the pioneer woman at his side dreamed more modestly of a garden to be cultivated. Both intellectual and cultural history, this volume continues Kolodny's study of frontier mythology begun in The Lay of the Land.

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Index

Adams, Elisabeth, 11, 173, 174, 177, 265 (n. 54)
Adams, John Quincy, 118
Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women, 267 (n. 29)
Allegheny Mountains, xiii, xiv, 28, 31, 37, 39, 40, 95, 230
American Adam: as hunter adventurer, xiii, 5, 56–57, 63, 65–67, 80, 86–88, 101, 104, 202, 203, 221, 224, 225, 226, 240; as reinvented by domestic fictionists, 8, 9, 101–2, 141, 145, 154, 191–92, 203, 204, 210, 212, 214, 220–21, 223–26; as domesticator-cultivator, 63–65, 66–67, 221, 224, 240. See also Boone, Daniel; Fantasy
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 230
American Fur Company, 231
American literary realism, 155–56, 157. See also Kirkland, Caroline
Anti-urbanism, 161–62
Appalachian Mountains, 112
Arkansas, 232
Austin, Stephen F., 99, 101, 108–9, 258 (nn. 28, 30), 259 (nn. 35, 36)
Babylon: New England as type of, 20–21; identified with Roman or Papist conquest, 23
Bay Colony. See Massachusetts
Baym, Nina, 111, 165, 167, 223, 266 (n. 22)
Beecher, Catharine, 166, 168, 218, 264 (n. 34); Letters to the People on Health and Happiness, 165, 167; “How to Redeem Women’s Profession from Dishonor,” 165–66
Bemis, James D., 72, 80
Bickerstaff’s almanack, for the year … 1788, 57
Black women: on the frontier, xiv–xv
Bleecker, Ann Eliza, 27; The History of Maria Kittle, 27–28, 31, 62, 74
Boone, Daniel, 10, 37, 40, 42, 47, 61, 203, 210, 221, 224; myth or legend of, xiii, 11, 28, 63, 65, 67, 70, 80, 101, 127, 225; in Filson, 28–29, 56–58, 69, 82–83, 240, 253 (n. 13); and change in structure of captivity narrative, 29–30; in John Trumbull, 29–31, 83; in Flint, 82–89 passim, 101; in Henry Trumbull, 83
Boone, Mary, 88
Boone, Rebecca Bryan, xiii, 5, 57, 82–89, 224, 255 (n. 24); and “fire hunt” legend, 84, 86–88; as ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Prologue. Dispossessed of Paradise
  10. Book One. From Captivity to Accommodation, 1630–1833
  11. Book Two. From Promotion to Literature, 1833–1850
  12. Book Three. Repossessing Eden, 1850–1860
  13. Epilogue. A New Frontier Beckons: A Transitional Meditation
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index