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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... garden if immigrant youngsters and rootless slum children were to learn the expectations of adult and urban so- ciety . " Gardens are made to offer opportunities for forming cor- rect social views , " another instructor noted in 1909 ...
... Garden City " in Dead Cat Dump . The Worcester plan offered respectability in the gar- den community , while teaching city urchins " that the business of life is work . " This " Good Citizens ' Factory " was a " city of little gardens ...
... Gardens , " Na- ture - Study Review , xi ( March , 1916 ) , pp . 126 , 127 . 27. " The United States School Garden Army , " Nature - Study Review , xv ( March , 1919 ) , p . 102 . • " 28. Ira Meyer , " Evolution of Aim and Method in ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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