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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... mean advantage of bird or man . It is his pride to kill what he does kill elegantly , scientifi- cally , and ... means of distinguishing themselves from the uninitiated . Gentle- men sportsmen would speak of a " covey ” of 8 BACK ...
... mean " going back to savagery nor to barbarism nor to any pestilential past ; it only means opening the doors and windows , " Canadian - born Bliss Carman wrote from New York City . " We go back to nature , ” he added , " every time we ...
... means of projecting their own personalities , and emulating as best they could the conventional behavior of heroic stereotypes . In the city , where contact between classes was limited chiefly to service functions , popular novels ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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