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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... organized camping inevitably compromised the Arcadian ideal . Spontaneous communion with the out - of - doors and budding naturalists ' patient contemplation were bound at every turn by the military precision which seemed necessary to ...
... Organized group activity and intergroup competition were thus introduced for the first time . In 1925 , the Woodcraft Plan was discontinued in favor of a " project curricu- lum . " The following year the project plan and its award ...
... organized in 1901 with nine " colonists " and hired an engineer to lay out three- to fifteen- acre building sites on 130 acres of abandoned farm land . All agreed in 1904 that the social advantages of such a colony made it better in all ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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