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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... summer camps were " the customary thing " by 1915 , when Porter Sargent described some three hun- dred for his Handbook of the Best Private Schools.1 Ninety per cent of these camps were in New England , within easy distance of major ...
... summer camps , it functioned as a " Boys ' Republic " where wealthy campers traded indolence at a summer hotel for an island " work camp " to learn the skills of business management . As a concession to roughing it , the boys did their ...
... summer camping . Professional youth workers talked of rescuing children from parents as well as from the streets . Sociologist Emory Bogardus , basing his study on the reports of social workers , found that tradi- tional families could ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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