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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... things that nature- study was supposed to provide.13 Early writers worked hard to fashion a textbook which com- bined a denial of booklearning with the directions necessary to bring about some spontaneous substitute . They valiantly ...
... things in nature that are best worth knowing to the end of doing those things that make life best worth the living . " 22 Unlike Bailey , however , Hodge thought it wisest to concentrate on attainable ideals - to accom- pany his ...
... things God has written on this page of His great book . " 45 Wright went to the out - of - doors for his health in the 1890's , and preached for a time in the Ozarks . Later he bought a horse ranch in Cali- fornia's Imperial Valley ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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