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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... thought of the seasons . . . comes with the trademark or the brand . And so we all live mechanically , from shop to table , without contact , and irreverently . " Down through the eons of geologic time the earth was holy ; but Bailey ...
... thought superior to agriculture . They made their ideas known in popular periodicals ranging from the Atlantic Monthly and Saturday Review to The Arena and Cosmopolitan and may well have provided the inspira- tion for a much larger ...
... thought of his land as a great island of cultured privacy . Far removed from " perpetual picnicking or refined roughing it , " his home com- bined forty buildings serviced by a $ 50,000 macadam driveway . Interior appointments included ...
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Back to Nature | 3 |
The Literary Commuter | 20 |
Birds in the Bush | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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