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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... educators developed insights into urban behavior that suggested society could not survive without nature . Instinctivists , environ- mentalists , and crowd psychologists all supposed that man was not made for urban life . Many educators ...
... educators , therefore , began to substitute literary nature for the 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 ...
... educators concluded , " but to secure it under the ordinary limitations of the schools has proved to be one of the most elusive tasks that teachers have ever undertaken . " 2 Not so much that training was unavailable ; books on the ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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