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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... hand , Long had equally en- thusiastic defenders . One of them wrote in 1904 : One may well wish that every boy and girl in the land might become acquainted with Killooleet and Cloud Wings and Huk- weem . Children and mere lovers of ...
... hand in hand with the axe and hoe . In the rather un- sentimental mechanics of Romantic design , individual trees had no value save for their function in the overall composition . Land- scape architects were far more interested in ...
... hand in another forty - three , and Gene Stratton Porter formed her own company to film her Limberlost novels . All offered what the trade flyer for World Pictures ' Forest Rivals in 1919 called " fast action , a strong love interest ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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