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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... trail this night ; may his grub hold out ; may his dogs keep their legs ; may his matches never miss fire , " Jack ... trail is lonely and the woods are deep and dark " and that the Northland religion was a " faith of food and blanket ...
... trail that MacKaye announced in the journal of the American Institute of Architects in 1921 as " An Appalachian Trail : a Project in Regional Planning , " provided for a series of public parks and open ways to cluster around the trail ...
... Trail ( New York : Grosset and Dunlap , 1917 ) , an outright appeal for worthwhile develop- ment of new territory ... Trail , p . 87 . 39. Curwood , Honor of the Big Snows , p . 17 ; Courage of Marge O'Doone , p . 47 ; The Alaskan , p ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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