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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The Arcadian Myth in Urban America Peter J. Schmitt. experiences and incidents ” of life in the woods became " occasions of ... experience of youth . " Prestige figures like Ernest Thompson Seton and Jack Miner gave canoeing and woodcraft ...
... experience which answered their interpretation of the call of the wild . But the institution projected onto summer camping the personality it maintained in ordinary urban activities . Parents sending their children to institutional ...
... experience something of the urge that propelled city dwellers into the edge of the wilderness . Struthers Burt had himself been an English instructor at Princeton . An avid outdoorsman , he combined success and solitude as a dude ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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