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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... Geoffrey Scott put it , “ Naturalism became the aesthetic method , and the love of Nature the most genuine emotion of our age . " 31 Even so astute a critic as Henry S. Canby found the " note of woods longing " a key to American thought ...
... Geoffrey Scott designated as the " Biological Fallacy ” the idea that institutions and ideologies must have a birth , a growth , a decline and an end . The Arcadian view of nature did not begin with Andrew Jackson Downing or Fred- erick ...
... Geoffrey Scott suggested that Romantic literary fashion ruled the other arts in " the most extreme example of the triumph of association over direct experiences which the history of culture contains " ; see The Architecture of Humanism ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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