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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... direct experiences city children could not enjoy . Ernest Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known or William Long's School of the Woods freed city teachers from the need to find hazel bushes in Brooklyn or to transmute the bluebirds ...
... direct descent from Baden- Powell through the " Unknown Scout " of the London streets and William Boyce . The American Scout soon came to learn his code of honor from King Arthur and the Magna Carta ; Seton , with his Indian influence ...
... direct the roads and fences , display the slopes of the hills , lay out the farms , remove every feature that offends a sensitive eye ; and persons will leave the galleries , with their limitations and imitations , to go to the country ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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