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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... necessary intermediaries in a communion between nature and their readers , for Arcadia existed as much in an act of will as in objective fact . It was based on the nature lover's faith in a world he saw through the eyes of his favorite ...
... necessary to modern Arcadian life . Howard Garis started his boy millionaire on a cross - country camping trip in a custom - made touring car designed especially for outdoor living . Ruel Perley Smith gave his " Rival Campers " a free ...
... necessary to preserve the game , let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle . . . . The shot is , after all , only a small part of the free life of the wilderness . The chief attractions lie in the physical hardihood ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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