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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... birds reached into homes where little else resembling bird life ever penetrated . Churchmen found something frightening in the thought that man had so far lost touch with God's handiwork that ... birds which became part BIRDS IN THE BUSH 35.
... bird " for impaling its food on thorns . The bluejay , like the red squirrel , robbed other birds ' nests . Cowbirds built no nests at all , but laid their eggs in the nests of smaller birds . Above all others , English sparrows must be ...
... birds they were able to entice into their yards . The paternalism motivating the bird watcher's crusade for pro- tective legislation , his birdhouse building and winter bird feeding alarmed some naturalists . To those who took their ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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