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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... building site and the disposition of thirty cords of firewood all compromised the original plan . The main building , designed " to look like a house dropped down in the woods , rather by chance , " grew to a one - hundred - and ...
... building and winter bird feeding alarmed some naturalists . To those who took their transcendental- ism seriously , there was something disturbing in the sight of purple martins nesting in many - storied apartment houses that resembled ...
... building a summer camp in the Sierras , seventy miles from the railroad , but he reminded his readers that even tempo- rary solitude required stamina and resourcefulness rarely called for in the city . As the " Cabin " took shape , it ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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