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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... published : New York : Oxford University Press , 1969. Originally published in series : Urban life in America series . Includes bibliographical references . ISBN 0-8018-4013-9 1. United States - Civilization - 1865-1918 . 2. Man ...
... published The Holy Earth to order Americans back to fundamentals . " Most of us live from the box and the bottle and the tin - can ; we are even feeding our cattle from the factory and the bag , " he wrote ; " no thought of the seasons ...
... publish sentimental nature essays side by side with his muckraking articles , “ David Grayson " emerged as a folk ... published a steady stream of essays . Eaton and Baker turned to romantic fiction from time to time , and Sharp tried ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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