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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... suburban development , in 1868 . They noted the drawing power of the metropolis , but they also found a " counter - tide of migration , especially affecting the more intelligent and more fortunate classes . " It seemed to Olmsted and ...
... suburban estates . Abandoned farms were pre- selected for their scenery , but the suburban estate was more often an accident of convenience . Nonetheless , taste and money could do much to incorporate the groves and waterways and ...
... suburban community . ” See Philip Colt , " The Making of a Suburban Colony , " Country Life in America , vi ( August , 1904 ) , p . 350 ; cf. Colt , " A Cooper- ative Country Colony , " ibid . ( July , 1904 ) , p . 250 ; “ An ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
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