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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... literary commuters deferred to a most unlikely competitor - a government clerk turned truck gardener and wood- chuck trapper by the name of John Burroughs . • Burroughs worked in the Treasury Office during the Civil War but left ...
... literary commuter . " It is easier to be good , " Dallas Sharp concluded , “ in an environment of largeness , beauty , and peace . " ** Suburbia seemed very good to Sharp , who sucked the nectar of country life without the farmer's ...
... literary nature for the direct experiences city children could not enjoy . Ernest Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I ... literary nature - study . Personification and other anthropomorphisms helped to bring the Arcadian tradition to school ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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