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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... animals , he enlisted his readers ' sympathies by arranging his natural history to point up analogies with human problems . " I have tried to emphasize our kinship with the animals by showing that in them we can find the virtues most ...
... animal stories that has yet appeared . " But scrupulous background detail could not hide the fact that Roberts's animals behaved exactly like human beings . Burroughs's ignorance of the wilderness did not lessen his criticism of Roberts ...
... animal individuality . " By what he believed was inductive reasoning , he found that man and the animals had much in com- mon . Nature writers , adequately to portray these common traits , must free themselves from the preconceptions of ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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