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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... Home . " Dixon's particular Arcadia was a mile of waterfront in tidewater Virginia . His fifteen - acre lawn sloped gently from the house to the beach , where a motor launch , two sailboats , three rowboats and an ocean - going schooner ...
... home in upstate New York . " Inside half a century , " Powell predicted , " sub- urbanism will cover half the country . " 32 He tried hard to educate his readers to beautiful suburban living . In his book The Country Home , as in its ...
... Home : How We Transformed a Wisconsin Woodland ( Chicago : McClurg , 1908 , 1st ed . 1907 ) . 25. Our Country Home , pp . 2 , 7 , 18 , 42 , 84 . 26. Hutchinson , Our Country Life ( Chicago : McClurg , 1912 ) , p . 33 . 27. Dorothy ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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