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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... play . He went on to warn that " the boy without a play- ground is father to the man without a job . " 24 Lee was sure that the fifty - court tennis field in Boston's Franklin Park was a monu- ment of civic beauty ; bars of netting ...
... play that makes for wholesome moral and ethical life . " 27 Professional recreation lead- ers brought social awareness into child's play , stressing coopera- tion and obedience to higher authority . Playground directors made group ...
... play where there is room to play and nobody cares whether the grass grows or not " ; see " Health , Morality and the Playground , " Playground Association of America , Proceedings , 1 ( August , 1907 ) , p . 30 . 26. For an ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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