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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... exists as a fragile and wonderful playground in which city dwellers may re - create their spirits . As early as 1884 , George Washington Sears had argued the vir- tues of wilderness camping for the urban masses , and his Wood- craft ...
... he wound his way into Yosemite in 1904 , past puffing tourists who with toy climbing axes and artificial Edelweiss were " playing wilderness where no wilderness << exists . " He could hardly agree with Muir 167 The Search for Solitude.
... exist- ence . " 1 Medical metaphors were nothing new in Marshall's time , but many wilderness lovers seemed almost obsessed . After all , as one of Zane Grey's heroines pointed out , they were no In- dians ; however much they loved the ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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