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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... Mind and ex- panded in Cecelia Tichi's New World , New Earth : Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whit- man . But Peter Schmitt makes his greatest contribution by probing deeply into the turn - of ...
... mind and heart rather than the number of acres " in their gardens.23 They set out bravely to import wild flowers into their backyard beds , and to build concrete ponds for their carp and gold fish . Great rolling landscapes had no place ...
... mind , by flooding its imagina- tion with the light , the beauty and the wonder of Nature . Benjamin O. Flower ... minds . Their effort owed much of its force and not a little of its poignancy to the uneasy fear that children could not ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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