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Author Schmitt, Peter J.

Title Back to nature; the Arcadian myth in urban America [by] Peter J. Schmitt.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1969.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  917.3    Check Shelf
Description xxiii, 230 pages ; 22 cm.
Series The Urban life in America series
Bibliography Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 191-221).
Contents Back to nature -- The literary commuter -- Birds in the bush -- Nature fakers -- This elegant art -- Keep off the grass -- Arcadia comes to school -- Bluebirds and beansprouts -- The customary thing -- Backwoods brotherhoods -- Children's fiction and the out-of-doors -- The wilderness novel -- The church in the wildwood -- Nature and the camera -- The search for scenery -- The search for solitude -- The new frontier.
Subject United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- United States -- History.
Landscape assessment -- United States -- History.
Nature in literature.
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