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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... White , Mary Waller and James Oliver Curwood took their readers to " the silent places . " Their heroes , however , were not primitive woodsmen but sophisticated intellectuals who valued nature's ancient gran- deur and a simple life ...
... White managed to spell out campcraft and its meaning in a popular trilogy - The Forest , The Mountains and The Cabin - which he completed in 1911. A reviewer in the New York Times happily called The Cabin something more than a " nature ...
... White , Gilbert , 148 White , Stewart Edward , 126 , 127 , 137 , 138 , 171 , 176 , 185 ; and The Cabin , 169 , 170 ; and Yosemite , 167 Whitney , Caspar , 29 Wiggin , Kate D. , 94 Wilderness , 4 , 7 , 14 , 16 , 53 , 181 , 186 ; and ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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