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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... scenery which they contain - scenery of those primeval types which are in most parts of the world rapidly vanishing for all eternity before the increased thoroughness of the economic use of land . Frederick Law Olmsted , Jr. , as quoted ...
... scenery to visitors who found themselves a little ill at ease in the wilderness . The most ardent tourists were not impressed by wildness it- self . They looked instead for the unique , the spectacular or the sublime , drawing their ...
... scenery which they contain • • 11 As early as 1910 , J. Horace McFarland threw the weight of his American Civic Association behind a bill creating a " Park Service " in the Interior Department . Pinchot , embroiled in a feud with ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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