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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... Romanticism was stronger than his interest in agriculture , the gap between nature worship and nineteenth- century farming was " one of the most sardonic jests in history . " Farmers made poor Romantics , Mumford found . The sturdy yeo ...
... Romantics could achieve , in the landscaped gardens of the gentry at least , the asso- ciations they sought - particularly when their emotions were keyed by literary allusions . In such gardens , ruined towers of painted canvas and ...
... Romanticism , 3 , 4 , 66 , 147 , 188 ; and cemeteries , 67 ; and commuting , 5 ; and Garden Cities , 181 ; and land- scape design , 56-59 , 62 ; and parks , 155 , 163 Roosevelt , Robert B. , 8 , 10 Roosevelt , Theodore , xxi , 14 , 23 ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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