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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... century came to a close , many people , like English sparrows , seemed to thrive on city life . Others returned as ... century , sophisticated men had lis- tened to the call of the wild ; it had flourished in the urbane world of the ...
... century was no island of civilization in a wilderness world . Rather , it stood in contrast to the mechanized world ... century sources , they hoped to minister all the more powerfully to the twentieth century . Fred- erick Law Olmsted's ...
... century Romantics could stroll through their land- scaped gardens with a " plano - convex mirror , " an engaging device for turning reality into two - dimensional art by erasing fore- ground distinctions . Nineteenth - century nature ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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