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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... nature , Burroughs's essays , like William Hamilton Gibson's Sharp Eyes and Eye Spy , invited nature lovers to look more closely at what was left . In more than one case , a later nature writer confessed , “ Burroughs and Hamil- ton ...
... nature , even at the expense of the man on the land , who found himself a tres- passer on the public domain . Even nature lovers who had never been West thought of National Parks as reservoirs of stability in a volatile world , resting ...
... nature loving sentiment of the country . " 10 The House Public Lands ... Nature fakers , ” then granted San Francisco her request in 1913. Suspecting chicanery ... lovers lost Hetch - Hetchy , but they alerted the public to the need for a ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
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