SOURCE: “The Polluted Quarry: Nature and Body in A Thousand Acres,” in Transforming Shakespeare: Contemporary Women's Re-Visions in Literature and Performance, edited by Marianne Novy, St. Martin's Press, 1999, pp. 127–44.
In the following essay, Mathieson discusses how Smiley presents nature and man's relationship to it in A Thousand Acres.
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