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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... English models.14 Aided by Her- bert , " gentlemen sportsmen❞ learned to think of hunting and fish- ing as part of English " field sports " and to dissociate themselves from native hunters in every way . In 1846 , William T. Porter ...
... English sparrows must be condemned . The bird watcher's hatred of the English sparrow exceeded even his dislike of cats and squirrels . It was a European bird , artificially introduced by man ; it was alien and un - American . Its song ...
... English sparrows were urban birds . As they multiplied beyond their food supply , however , they spread outward along highways and rail lines where grain had dropped from passing cars , defiling the countryside in an ornithological ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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