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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... space zoning , green- belt developments , and parkway construction . Many of the re- gional planners reflected a growing belief that the nature move- ment had lost intensity , even as more and more people looked to outdoor recreation ...
The Arcadian Myth in Urban America Peter J. Schmitt. vertising space was given over to the exchange of country homes . The largest estates appeared in three- and four - page advertise- ments which delighted less - ambitious commuters ...
... spaces , the scent of the moist forest , the roar of the mountain torrent , the acrid tang of burn- ing wood . He knew that he must go . He went for a year · 27 Similarly , Sigurd Olson , then a professional guide in the Hudson Bay ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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