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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... ideal life is that which combines something of the social and intellectual advantages and physical comforts of the city with the inspiration and peaceful joys of the country , " Cornell educator Liberty Bailey wrote in 1901. Bailey's “ ...
... ideal as they slowly reverted back to wilderness , but more than one commuter watched his pastures grow shaggier with cockleburrs and brush , scrub pine and oak , until they lost their original appeal . As Beauty with the Beast , the ...
... Ideal in Education , " Outlook , XCIX ( October 21 , 1911 ) , p . 413 ; and Hamilton W. Mabie , Essays on Nature and Culture ( New York , 1906 ) , p . 284. See also J. Ellis , The Charm of Nature : An Anthology for All Lovers of Nature ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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