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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... logical solution . In the steaming July heat of 1872 , The New York Times hit upon a program of one day excursion trips for slum children . " This beautiful charity , " as Boston's William Cole called it , * tugged at the heartstrings ...
... logical assault of sounds which could only be registered by in- struments . New York City's Noise Abatement Commission went on to conclude that " a tiger from Siberia or Bengal could roar or snarl indefinitely " on many streets ...
... logical traffic pat- terns , laid out badly needed parklands for public recreation , and in ten fat volumes surveyed the past and future prospects of the nation's largest city . " Mastering a Metropolis " on paper simply required ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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