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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... picture of Lake Louise in the Ladies ' Home Journal . Such gratuitous visions of landscape scenery did much to bring ... pictures in the 1890's , Shiras was requested by the government to exhibit a series of night photographs at the 1900 ...
... picture of rugged hills and of rugged hearts . Filled with the tang of boundless forests . Rich with the blood of untamed men . Come ! The motion picture industry firmly molded its material to the Arcadian image . To insure public ...
... picture companies nurtured the public's appetite for " powerful acting , scenic splendor and tense situations , ” as re- leases described Curwood's Jan of the Big Snows in 1922. Dis- tributors provided layouts for lobby cards , press ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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