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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... woods ; have lived alone with the animals for months at a time . . . have lain all night in my canoe or slept in the snow alone on their trail , that I might not lose the lesson of their awaking . " 14 The adventures of the " Wood Folk ...
... woods longing " a key to American thought . Bradford Torrey , John Burroughs and Stewart Edward White were not great writers , but their popularity demonstrated to Canby that " with most Americans you reach intimacy most quickly by ...
... Woods ( New York : Gros- set and Dunlap , 1911 ) , p . 379 ; Day , Joan of Arc of the North Woods , pp . 92 , 118 ; Tynan , Shooting of Dan McGrew , p . 139 ; Kyne , The Understanding Heart , p . 99 . 37. Curwood , The Alaskan , p . 12 ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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