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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... London greeted the world in print.11 London had borrowed a grubstake from his sister to join the Klondike Rush in the summer of 1896. He outpacked the Indians over Chilkoot Pass , wintered on the Stewart River short of Dawson , and ...
... London wrote as he bitterly reversed the theme of Call of the Wild . Reverting to savagery in San Francisco's financial circles , London's hero lost the mental largeness and physical tone bred of the wilderness . Heavy - handed and ...
... London , A Daughter of the Snows , p . 90 . 24. James B. Hendryx , North ( New York : A. L. Burt , 1923 ) , p . 74 . 25. See Wright , Shepherd of the Hills , p . 350 ; Hamlin Garland , The Forester's Daughter : A Romance of the Bear ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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