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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... Club was a horse and hunt club , similar in this respect to the hunt clubs of New York City . There city businessmen established such groups as the Meadowbrook Club and the Rockaway Club in the 1870's to spice the BACK TO NATURE 11.
... Club was formed in Yonkers , a splinter group of the Brookline club laid out a primitive six - hole course and campaigned vigorously for sup- port among their fellow members . By 1902 , when the Brookline club doubled the size of its ...
... Club , " Harper's New Monthly Magazine , xc ( December , 1894 ) , p . 18 . By 1928 , New York City's metropolitan region included one hundred fifty - nine clubs offering some twenty thousand landscaped acres to nearly fifty - two ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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