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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... interest.20 The National Association of Audubon Societies was perhaps the most effective of these special - interest groups . Originally founded in 1886 by George Bird Grinnell , the society had faltered and died for lack of purpose ...
... interest reaching as far back as the first quarter of the nineteenth century . Earlier movements had begun when- ever educators observed that the spontaneous interest which their pupils took in the world of nature exerted a physical ...
... interest in both scenery and action . In 1915 , James Oliver Curwood's agents advertised In the Days of Famine as " A Su- preme Test of Manhood That Shows What Real Character Is . It Surpasses Belief and Overwhelms Our Sense of the ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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