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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... popular cinema . Here is a book on a level with Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden and Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land : The American West as Symbol and Myth , a work that carries forward the concepts of wilderness introduced by ...
... popular conception of the literary commuter . Born in the coun- try , he worked in the city at the hectic pace so popular in country life accounts until a physical breakdown brought a prescription for long walks and rural scenery ...
... popular novels of- fered a variety of roles which readers could temporarily assume , testing them always against their own experience . Readers of popular fiction actively if unconsciously explored new lives for themselves , accepting ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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