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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... Significance of the Frontier in American History , " in The Frontier in American History ( New York : Henry Holt and Company , 1920 ) ; for a penetrating discussion of Turner's melancholy see William Coleman , “ Science and Symbol in ...
... significance of the landscape , " which yielded such qualities as Life , Power , Beauty , Peace , Joy , Mystery and the Holy Spirit.11 Textbook writer Henry Vincent Hubbard found much Romantic vocabulary obsolete , but not the ...
... significance of God's Works as well as His Word . To one or another interpreter , trees , flowers , brooks and birds ' nests seemed all " the smiles of God . " Nature signified " the visible gar- ment of God , " the " art of God , " the ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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