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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... ture faking , 45 , 48-49 , 52 , 54 ; and nature - study , 94 ; and parks , 155 ; and religion , 144 ; on Wood- craft League , 107 Burt , Struthers , on dude ranching , 172 Busch , Henry , on camping , 176 Cabins and cottages ...
... ture , 131 ; and films , 151-53 ; on French - Canadians , wilderness , 134 Custer , George , 154 Dickerson , Mary C. , 84 132-33 ; on Dixon , Thomas , on commuting , 27 , 28 Doubleday , Frank , 30 Doubleday , Page and Company , en ...
... ture faking , 46-49 ; and Wood- craft League , 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 Shaler , Nathaniel , 68 , 141 , 146 Sharp , Dallas Lore , 5 , 18 , 24 , 26 , 36 , 46 , 54 , 126 , 188 ; and commuting , 21-23 ; and nature - study , 88 ; on suburbs ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
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