The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters

…the ravaged American environment in The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters (1975) and The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630–1860 (1984); both became important to ecofeminism and literary-environmental studies. “Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on…