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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... Bailey aimed his doctrine at those who went to the country for " more room , less racket , better health , more freedom , and closer relations with sun and wind and sky " and not to take up farming . " Theodore Roosevelt chose Bailey to ...
... Bailey noted " how desperately soon may men reduce it all to ruin and to empti- ness , and how slatternly may they violate the scenery ! " 11 Yet it seemed to Bailey that " no people should be forbidden the influence of the forest ...
... Bailey wrote in The Nature Study Idea ; " it is only essential that the observation be correct and the inference reasonable . " 20 Bailey , for all his sentiment , al- lowed no backsliding in his followers . He declared there could be ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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