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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... they dis- trusted the result , they subtitled their manuals for teachers and normal schools , where such simplification seemed eminently suc- cessful . Later educators turned from the austere to the openly inspira- 82 BACK TO NATURE.
... result to the city from allowing so many of its children to grow up in the narrow confines of courts and alleys without ever a day's experience of the health - giving and purifying influences of the country , " Cole wrote , " does not ...
... result of the auto- mobile will be in that wonderful , that incomparable valley , " he told the American Civic Association in 1912 , " you will keep it out . " 19 But Yosemite and Sequoia Parks were opened in 1913 and Mesa Verde in 1914 ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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