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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... Boy Scouts . " 15. " The Boy Scout Scheme , " 24 - page pamphlet published by the Boy Scouts of America , July , 1914 , in Beard Papers , box 224 , Library of Congress . 16. Quoted in Murray , History of the Boy Scouts 208 NOTES TO PAGES ...
... Boy Scouts , p . 42 . 17. Helen Buckler , Mary Fiedler , Martha Allen , Wo - He - Lo , the Story of the Camp Fire ... Boy Scouts of America , December 17 , 1912 , copy in Beard Papers , box 17 . 23. Murray , History of the Boy Scouts ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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