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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... simple life uncluttered by thoughts of money on his farm near " Hempfield . " In a series of articles later collected in Adventures in Contentment , Great Possessions and eight other volumes , Baker persuasively sounded the call of the ...
... simple vocabulary almost en- tirely to a technical and anatomical study of insect life . Wilbur Jackman insisted that adult knowledge could not be meaningfully impressed on childish minds . Sharing Francis Parker's faith in the ...
... simple fare and simple pleasures , calculating in squabs instead of stocks and bonds . When a land- slide uncovered a vein of gold worth fifty thousand dollars a ton , he rushed to bury it again to preserve his Arcadia undefiled by ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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