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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... follow the vesper sparrow's song with his own response , carrying a Victrola out to the stone wall to play Brahms's " Cradle Song " or Schubert's " Serenade " for visitors " hushed into humble gratitude for our share in this quiet life ...
... follow in his steps . Urban Ameri- cans were willing to sever only the most irritating of their ties with city life . Walter Prichard Eaton , who was a drama critic and a lecturer at Princeton , offered a simpler escape . Writing from ...
... follow their companies into the suburbs , preferring rather to commute from the cities outward . See Taylor , Satellite Cities : A Study of Industrial Suburbs ( New York : D. Appleton , 1915 ) , pp . 120 , passim . 19. Frederick W ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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