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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... living with a rural society . Americans turning " back to nature " rather than " back to the land " responded to a philosophy only faintly related to the pattern of thought which Richard Hofstadter and others have called " agrarianism ...
... living . Professional shooters found " market - hunting " a profitable indus- try at a time when every cookbook insisted that game dinners were part of gracious living . Working from midsummer to late spring , these men made hunting a ...
... living and for loving - and this is nature- study . On these points I make no compromise . ' " 21 Bailey underestimated urbanization's effect on childhood , as well as on pedagogy . He supposed it was vital to bring country nature to ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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