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Back to nature: the Arcadian myth in urban America
| Author: |
Schmitt, P.J. |
| Date: |
1969 |
| Periodical: |
New York: Oxford University Press. 264 p. |
| Abstract: |
In this volume, Peter J. Schmitt demonstrates that the modern metropolis not only refashioned the physical environment of townspeople and reshaped their institutional life, but also profoundly altered the way in which they perceived the natural world outside the city .For city folk, seeking refuge from the frenetic pace of urban society, there developed a "back to nature" movement which attracted wide popular support at the turn of the century and created institutions that remain today. Part therapy and part nostalgia, this "Arcadian myth" permeated the life and thinking of a good portion of the urban middle and upper classes. |
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