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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 55
... readers who " learned at once to differentiate and to beautify everyday things " 10 But early nature lovers were no tran- scendentalists . They made Thoreau rather than Emerson their hero ; as one editor noted , “ in spite of his ...
... readers of books , or rather the buyers of current novels , live in the cities ; they are hurried , restless people . They long for green fields , clean air , and simple nature , in theory . . . . It only remains , therefore , for the ...
... readers could temporarily assume , testing them always against their own experience . Readers of popular fiction actively if unconsciously explored new lives for themselves , accepting or rejecting the manner and dress of fic- tional ...
Inhalt
Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
13 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.