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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... urban living now suffusing the Republic , a dislike that for many foreigners is now the most salient national characteristic . As Peter Schmitt makes brutally clear , “ Re- treat to the wilderness was a middle - class response to urban ...
... urban Americans pattern themselves after the gentry they knew through English literature . From the 1880's on into the 1920's , middle - class journalists tried to combine country life and city culture in essays calculated to appeal to ...
The Arcadian Myth in Urban America Peter J. Schmitt. was clear that urban sociologists were deeply disturbed by their own culture . Students of urban society responded enthusiastically to Jacob Riis ' How the Other Half Lives . Among ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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