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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... young scouts learned similar lessons . Alan Douglas's volumes on the " Hickory Ridge Boy Scouts " combined nature - study pamphlets on “ tracking , ” " trees , " or " fishes , " with little novellas which gave his " Wolf Patrol ...
... Young Trapper , and Jack the Young Explorer , he chronicled the rejuvenation of fourteen - year - old Jack Danvers , who had grown “ slim and pale and spent most of his time reading , instead of playing out of doors as all boys should ...
... Young Stanley Burton had " made silly , unmoral movies and tough night clubs his hobby . " None of that was " clean stuff for a young lad , " Wallace wrote : " let him feel a breath of the north wind , and the rain in his face , and the ...
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Birds in the Bush | 33 |
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