Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America

by Peter J. Schmitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801840139
• ISBN13: 9780801840135
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"