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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... rural landscape in San Francisco , The Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association bought eighty acres ten miles distant , along with a special " funeral car " for the electric railway . As Americans somehow confused peace and security with rural ...
... rural image of informal outdoor exercise gave way to an urban ideal for town and country alike . In the 1920's , the National Recreation Association found rural play patterns woefully inadequate . Coun- try children had nowhere to go ...
... rural to urban life gave rise to fears of the city that sociologists further defined . Rural sociologist Charles Galpin saw city life as " immured in brick and stone , gain- ing its outlook , as it were , through periscopes . " Early ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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