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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... noted in 1903 that " no sign of the times is more significant of the change in American habits than the number of volumes on flowers , trees , shrubs , birds , which are constantly coming from the press . " " No publishing house more ...
... noted thirty years later : The triumph of its designers ' skill lies in the fact that a nar- row strip of land , broken and folded into ridges of rock , has been turned into a series of tree - bordered meadows , each one giving glimpses ...
... noted , from those specializ- ing in “ roughing - it ” with “ Indian guides and no rules , " to those offering ' camp mothers ' and compulsory tooth brushes . " 21 Somewhere in this range parents could choose a camp experience which ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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