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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... Chicago , Five Hun- dred Criminal Careers , Prostitution in the United States , The Un- adjusted Girl , and The City Where Crime Is Play indicated an almost pathological interest in human failure . In 1929 , Chicago's dignified ...
... ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1922 ) , 371 pp . 27. Luther Gulick , " Play and Democracy , " Playground Association of America , Proceedings , 1 ( August , 1907 ) , p . 12 . 28. Henry S. Curtis , " Playground Progress and ...
... Chicago's Robert E. Park advanced this idea as early as 1915 . See Park , Ernest W. Burgess , Roderick D. McKenzie , The City ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1925 ) , p . 40 . 12. See Charles R. Henderson , " Are Modern ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
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