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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... lead readers to expect more from a walk or a camp in the woods than they usually get . ' He spoke rhetorically then , but in a few years his question seemed critically relevant to the whole movement . The nature essay was a literary and ...
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... lead . 6. Frank Chapman , " Hunting With a Camera , " World's Work , vi ( June , 1903 ) , 3554 . 7. Enos A. Mills , Your National Parks ( Boston : Houghton , Mifflin , 1932 ) , p . 205 . CHAPTER 15 1. Robert Sterling Yard , The Book of ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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