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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 21
... learned that " there are few places so tight that we can't get out of them if we go about it the right way , and make the best of what power we have . " From " Peter Piper , " city children discovered that obedience and trust were prime ...
... learned more than the behavior patterns and conventional symbols of the outdoorsman - the mackinaw jacket and khaki breeches , the knee - high boots and briar pipe . They learned also a view of nature and the city and of man's role in ...
... learned more of natural virtue from outdoor life than they could ever teach them . On occasion Curwood's missioner confided , " it may be that I've learned one thing better than most of you who live down in civilization . And that's how ...
Inhalt
Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
13 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.