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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... Romantic vocabulary obsolete , but not the principles of Romantic design and the spiritualization of natural forms . " As in a stanza of poetry , " Hubbard wrote , the elements employed in landscape design " should be in themselves ...
... Romantic examples of land- scape gardening and landscape art , “ that he might learn , ” his father wrote , " what sort of scenes the masters of landscape paint- ing had thought it worthwhile to depict . " 18 Then , in 1888 , he opened ...
... Romantic traditions . " What shall I plant is the question usually asked , " wrote Herbert Kellaway , “ and not where or how to make pleasing groupings or picture - like arrange- ments . " " 15 Even in attempting informal gardens the ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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