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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... adventure and gained nothing that they did not al- ready know . By dramatizing the unique and wonderful , nature fakers further cut off their audience from comparable experiences . They made the wilderness a cloak for their inventions ...
... adventure to scouting in a series of " Westy Martin " novels . Westy , an introspective lad from New Jersey ... adventures , though he was poorly prepared to sur- vive them . Once he had launched his hero in the wilderness , Fitzhugh ...
... adventures for children . Under such titles as Jack the Young Canoeman , Jack in the Rockies , Jack the Young Trapper ... adventure . Lost and starving , Hubbard died and Wallace barely escaped to lead a second expedition in 1904. After ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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