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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... Seton wrote ; " we must also teach them to enjoy it . ” 1 Seton , Daniel Beard and a number of other Americans agreed with Sir Robert Baden - Powell that city children should not be left to their own devices in the country . Baden ...
... Seton , who was the first " Chief Scout , " and to Beard , the " Chief Scout Commissioner " ; to Beard and Seton any elevation of West meant fundamental policy changes . " All the enthusiasm , all the picturesqueness and all those ...
... Seton , Book of Woodcraft , p . v . 4. Seton , The Trail of an Artist - Naturalist ( New York : Scribner's , 1940 ) , p . 384 . 5. As quoted in William D. Murray , The History of the Boy Scouts of America ( New York : Boy Scouts of ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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