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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... Charles W. Eliot , Sr. , Charles Eliot , Landscape Architect , a Lover of Nature and of His Kind Who Trained Him- self for a New Profession . . . ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1902 ) , p . 219. Even as late as 1915 , Samuel Parsons ...
... Charles Eliot , " The Need of Parks , " as quoted in Charles Eliot , Sr. , Charles Eliot , Landscape Architect . . . ( Boston : Houghton Mif- flin , 1902 ) , pp . 339 , 341 . 4. Eliot , Charles Eliot , p . 655 . 5. Louis Windmuller ...
... Charles , Sr. , 29 ; and camp- ing , 101 ; on landscape design , 65 ; and parks , 73 Eliot , Charles , Jr. , xviii , 57 , 61 , 66 , 71 , 73 Emerson , Ralph W. , 22 , 24 , 35 , 131 Erskine , John , 16 ; on commuting , 188 Ferguson ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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