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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... novels varying as widely as imagination and the Scout Oath would permit . But a federal charter in 1916 gave the organization a marketable commodity by establishing their control of the words " Boy Scout . " Both ad- vertisers and ...
... novels , live in the cities ; they are hurried , restless people . They long for green fields , clean air , and ... Novels , " House Beautiful , XVII ( December , 1904 ) , 31 . Edward Weeks of the Atlantic Monthly surveyed the “ best ...
... novels . . . a bigot standing directly in the path of progress . " 49 When a Man's a Man called on Eastern intellectuals to sample outdoor life where " a man's soul must be as the unstained skies , the un- burdened wind , and the ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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