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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... commuter was in no sense a farmer . Commuters , like sportsmen , avoided any identification with " the natives " in their apologia for country life ; Arcadia was not for plowmen . " Living in the country without being of it , " one commuter ...
... commuters , " those idealists whose essays laid the spiritual foundation for an age of suburbs . In the first years ... commuter re- sponded to nature " more ingeniously , more movingly , and much more interestingly " than his rural ...
... commuters met with a polite reception from the world at large . " The week - end habit is one of the most remarkable features of modern life , " the New Statesman concluded in 1917. " There is no enthusiasm prevalent today which has ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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