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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... Burroughs in 1899 to demonstrate that " Arcadia " as a word meant little more than a " scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet . ” As a place it lay somewhere on the urban fringe , easily accessible and mildly wild , the goal of a ...
... Burroughs's essays , like William Hamilton Gibson's Sharp Eyes and Eye Spy , invited nature lovers to look more closely at what was left . In more than one case , a later nature writer confessed , “ Burroughs and Hamil- ton Gibson were ...
... Burroughs , p . 129 . 20. Burroughs , Birds and Poets , Writings of John Burroughs , III ( Bos- ton : Houghton , Mifflin , 1904 ) , p . 58 . 21. Roosevelt to Burroughs , May 4 , 1906 , in the Theodore Roosevelt Papers , box 153 ; Burroughs ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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