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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... Service " in the Interior Department . Pinchot , embroiled in a feud with Secretary Richard A. Ballinger , opposed the bill . Pinchot believed the parks belonged to the Forest Service , not to the Interior De- partment . Insisting ...
... Service translated nature into the language of ordinary Americans . Scientific descriptions took on a spiritual connotation in the " trailside Shrines " that blossomed out at strategic points and parking lots . For the 1924 season ...
... Service , its History , Activities and Organization , Institute for Government Research Monograph 11 ( New York : Appleton , 1922 ) , pp . 98 , 93 . 3. John Muir , Our National Parks ( Boston : Houghton , Mifflin , 1901 ) , p . 2 . 4 ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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