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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... style which Mrs. Hutchinson chose to call " Early English domestic ecclesiastical architecture . " A 33,000 - gallon water reservoir and a seventy - five foot woodshed served the household and 15,000 loads of dirt smoothed a terrace ...
... style and manners . " 11 Led by Robert Park , the University of Chicago's sociology de- partment became a leading center for urban research . Park saw the city as " a clinic " in which human nature could be examined under stress . The ...
... style , 21 , 182 , 186 ; see Garden City movement and Residential colonies Sullivan , Mark , 26 Summer camps , 96-105 , 185 ; and education , 100-103 ; and Fresh- Air Charity , 97 , 114 ; and person- ality development , 100 , 102 , 104 ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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