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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... wilderness held no terrors . It was a refuge of virtue and content , where his heroes , broken by business and social competition , redeemed themselves against a background of magnificent scenery . The settings of his wilderness novels ...
... Wilderness " could be a state of mind , however , and as ap- plicable to " the Harvester's " six - hundred - acre woods in Indiana as to the arctic tundra . In The Shepherd of the Hills , Harold Bell Wright brought peace of mind to his ...
... wilderness areas , 174 Urban sociology , 179-81 Urbanism , 74 , 180 Urbanization , conveniences of , 3 , 31 ; fear of , 179-81 , 186 ; lure of , 180 ; problems of , 3 , 13 , 133 , 178 Vandergrift , Joseph , 30 Van Dyke , Henry , 38 ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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