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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... hundred thirty by two hundred fifty feet . Fenced away from the rest of the world , it formed a community where young hosts and hostesses guided visitors through the garden and the model house , served them tea and explained their daily ...
... hundred children participated . The number grew steadily ; after 1889 , the Fresh Air Fund served more than ten thousand New York children every season . Par- ticipants in Country Week programs welcomed " the little stran- gers reared ...
... hundred boarding farms were still in New England and the Middle Atlantic States , but three hundred and sixty - six Western ranchers reported the major portion of their income from boarders , lodgers and campers . The dude rancher was a ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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