SOURCE: Blair, Andrea. “Landscape in Drag: The Paradox of Feminine Space in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World.” In The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment, edited by Steven Rosendale, pp. 111-30. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002.
In the following essay, Blair discusses the metaphor of land-as-woman, offers a theoretical foundation for a balanced exploration of gendered landscape representation, and tests her new approach by applying it to Susan Warner's 1850 novel The Wide, Wide World.
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