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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... turned to a finger - like reservation , in some places as narrow as two hundred feet , which ran for twelve and a half miles along the Hudson River in New Jersey- Palisades Interstate Park . Originally planned in 1895 to stop trap- rock ...
... turned from his Alaskan stories to put into Burning Daylight and The Valley of the Moon the simple Arcadian life he was unable to lead for himself . Back from the Yukon , London's hero , " Burning Daylight , " launched himself in the ...
... turned to exploring the possibilities of the " metropolitan dis- trict . " 24 In 1925 , Lewis Mumford edited a special issue of The Survey Graphic which argued that regional planning was " the New Conservation , " aimed at utilizing ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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