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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... believed , and instinctive needs could not be lightly denied . Clark University's G. Stanley Hall upset a generation of school teachers by insisting that city children , unable to " recapitulate " the prim- itive and pastoral stages of ...
... 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 deductive science . They must , in ...
... believed when I speak . " " 1 His ever widening audience seemed to appreciate the ready and painless entrance into ... believed in innocence , and uncritically expected it in others . • Seton , Roberts and Long believed in the Arcadian ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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