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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... give their first lessons . " In 1905 , Maurice Bigelow of the Teachers ' College , Columbia University , began a monthly journal which he called The Nature- Study Review . Under a succession of editors from various colleges and ...
... gives pleasure . " If children did find familiar things most meaningful , then " association " ought to play an important ... give up the search . " Is it true that the majority of young children are spontaneously interested in study of ...
... gives the best cov- erage of the Fresh Air movement in the nineteenth century . 6. Cole concluded that " adoptions into country families would be more frequent , were the parents more willing to give up their children , " see " Country ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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