Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban AmericaPeter 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 assesses the influence of the "Arcadian myth" on American culture. With sympathy and gently irony, he surveys the manifestations of the American love affair with the country: summer camps, the beginnings of wildlife protection and the conservation crusade, landscaped cemeteries, "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 landscapes. Nature study and anthropomorphic animal stories taught moral values to children. |
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Early attempts to turn it into farm land had already failed when in 1858 Frederick
Law Olmsted set to work to make it conform to the plan he titled " Greensward . ”
As one park advocate noted thirty years later : The triumph of its designers ' skill ...
Early attempts to turn it into farm land had already failed when in 1858 Frederick
Law Olmsted set to work to make it conform to the plan he titled " Greensward . ”
As one park advocate noted thirty years later : The triumph of its designers ' skill ...
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Early scouting literature often portrayed its heroes “ heart to heart with nature in
constant communion with the woods , the mountains and streams ” ; but John
Alexander argued that camping ought to lead the Scout to " out - door life in order
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Early scouting literature often portrayed its heroes “ heart to heart with nature in
constant communion with the woods , the mountains and streams ” ; but John
Alexander argued that camping ought to lead the Scout to " out - door life in order
...
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White ' s early novels popularized the fictional lumberjack , but they failed to
convey the feeling of the “ Silent Places ” that he would later come to prize . The "
deification of the cutting edge ” and the sawmills ' “ epic chorus ” spelled the end
of ...
White ' s early novels popularized the fictional lumberjack , but they failed to
convey the feeling of the “ Silent Places ” that he would later come to prize . The "
deification of the cutting edge ” and the sawmills ' “ epic chorus ” spelled the end
of ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
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| Titel | Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America |
| Autor/in | Peter J. Schmitt |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage, überarbeitet |
| Verlag | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 16. Sept. 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801840139, 9780801840135 |
| Länge | 264 Seiten |
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