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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... - class homes in Boston . He hoped to evaluate object - lesson techniques and text- book assumptions , but he uncovered among these city children a frightening ignorance of the simplest nature lore . Ninety per 77 Arcadia Comes to School.
... object - lesson learning , too many objects in city life simply couldn't be dignified . “ Common- place " soon came ... object does not come into a child's heart so much from the beauty or wonder of the object as from association of this ...
... object , they had no difficulty in shipping their speedy motorboat across country from New York so they could loiter in style " for two golden weeks " on the Columbia River.9 8 Children's writers shielded their characters from the worst ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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