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Introduction 1

Chapter One Adam's Paradise 22

Ⅰ.The Formation of the Western Myth and Its Essence 22

Ⅱ.Three Types of Women Images in the West 38

Ⅲ.The Land-as-Woman Metaphor in the Western Myth 44

Ⅳ.Women and the Western Landscape:A Privileged Standpoint 50

Chapter Two Dispossessed of Paradise:Scarborough's The Wind 58

Ⅰ.A Masculine West 59

Ⅱ.Female Victims of the Androcentric Thinking 72

Ⅲ.Nature as Scapegoat 84

Chapter Three Challenging the Male Paradise:Ferber's Cimarron 93

Ⅰ.The Reversed Roles in the West 94

Ⅱ.A Satire on the Prairie Madonna 105

Ⅲ.Destruction of the Western Land 121

Chapter Four Recovering Mother's Garden:Cather's My Antonia 132

Ⅰ.The Introduction:A Different Version of the American West 133

Ⅱ.Jim Burden:An Easterly Journey to Be Away from Nature 138

Ⅲ.Antonia Shimerda:A Westerly Journey to Be with the Prairie Land 156

Chapter Five Repossessing Mother's Garden:Austin's The Land of Little Rain 171

Ⅰ.The Land as Owner and Host 172

Ⅱ.The Native People's Connection with the Land 182

Ⅲ.The Basket Woman and Her Basket-Making 188

Conclusion 198

Bibliography 208