Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban AmericaJohns Hopkins University Press, 01.02.1990 - 264 Seiten Peter J. Schmitt describes the many ways in which America's urban middle class became involved with nature from the turn of the century to shortly after World War I, and he assess the influence of the "Arcadian myth" on American culture. With sympathy and gentle irony, he surveys the manifestations of the American love affair with the country: summer camps, the beginnings of wildlie protection and the conservation crusade, landscaped cemeteris, "Christian ornithology," and wilderness novels. The Arcadian drive reflected urban values, as the city-dweller sought virtue in nature. Landscape gardening, country clubs, national parks, and scenic turnoffs imposed the industrial ethic of order, neatness, and regularity on natural landscaps. Nature study and anthropomorphic animal stories taught moral values to children. |
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... Arcadian principles in day - to - day situ- ations . It would be idle to try to locate beginnings for the Arcadian philosophy in the influence of single individuals or even to sug- gest that a single individual brought change or ...
The Arcadian Myth in Urban America Peter J. Schmitt. suburban developments indiscriminately dropped on the blank page of a farmer's field . New houses , fresh from builders ' plan books , rode the landscape like empty ships , and ...
The Arcadian Myth in Urban America Peter J. Schmitt. vacation editions in May and June . Yet , no matter how much overt expression might dwindle , the myth remained as a sig- nificant part of American culture . Geoffrey Scott designated ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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