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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... Beard , the " Chief Scout Commissioner " ; to Beard and Seton any elevation of West meant fundamental policy changes . " All the enthusiasm , all the picturesqueness and all those things which make it interesting are gradually being ...
... Beard Papers , box 227 , Library of Congress . 9. Dan Beard Outdoor School to Mrs. J. C. Gibbons , Paris , Texas , April 14 , 1917 ; Beard to Mr. George F. Ogden , Batavia , New York , April 13 , 1916 , copies in Beard Papers . 10. Dan ...
... Beard Papers , box 224 . 9. An award suggested to Beard by John Muir in a letter of May 30 , 1907 , in Beard Papers , box 16 . 10. Beard , The Buckskin Book of the Boy Pioneers of America ( n.p .: Pictorial Review , 1911 ) , p . 5 . 11 ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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