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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... Roosevelt's anger into the open . He had privately fumed over almost everything Long had written since 1903 , but when Every- body's Magazine approached him in 1907 , he granted an inter- view as an expert naturalist in his own right ...
... Roosevelt to C. Hart Merriam , June 8 , 1907 , in the Roosevelt Papers , box 156 . 28. Roosevelt , " Nature Fakers , " 430. Long replied to Roosevelt im- mediately . " Your high position gives weight even to your foolish words , " he ...
... Roosevelt , Robert B. , 8 , 10 Roosevelt , Theodore , xxi , 14 , 23 , 25 , 29 , 31 , 107 , 109 , 121 , 173 , 188 ; and nature faking , 50 , 52 , 53 ; and " The Strenuous Life , " 13 Roughing it , 7 , 104 , 168 , 169 ; see Camping ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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