06431oam 2201633I 450 991081796830332120240418010112.00-300-27664-80-300-18905-21-283-91531-610.12987/9780300189056(CKB)2550000000996501(OCoLC)823040831(CaPaEBR)ebrary10640863(SSID)ssj0000803468(PQKBManifestationID)12305159(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803468(PQKBWorkID)10811272(PQKB)11094070(DE-B1597)486265(OCoLC)824655125(DE-B1597)9780300189056(Au-PeEL)EBL3421101(CaPaEBR)ebr10640863(CaONFJC)MIL422781(MiAaPQ)EBC3421101(EXLCZ)99255000000099650120120913h20132013 fy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrArcadian America the death and life of an environmental tradition /Aaron Sachs1st ed.New Haven ;London :Yale University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (497 p.)New directions in narrative historyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-17640-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue : waterfalls and cemeteries -- Common shade : cultivating a place for death -- The middle landscapes of New England culture -- Sleepy Hollow : a young nation in repose -- Stumps -- Three men of the middle border (part one) : twilight -- Three men of the middle border (part two) : American homelessness -- Atlantis : Arcadia and Armageddon -- Epilogue : American Gothic; or death by landscape."Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidly expanding cities, making nature accessible to all and serving to remind visitors of the natural cycles of life. In this unique interdisciplinary blend of historical narrative, cultural criticism, and poignant memoir, Aaron Sachs argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis. Until the trauma of the Civil War, many Americans sought to shape society into what they thought of as an Arcadia--not an Eden where fruit simply fell off the tree, but a public garden that depended on an ethic of communal care, and whose sense of beauty and repose related directly to an acknowledgment of mortality and limitation. Sachs explores the notion of Arcadia in the works of nineteenth-century nature writers, novelists, painters, horticulturists, landscape architects, and city planners, and holds up for comparison the twenty-first century's--and his own--tendency toward denial of both death and environmental limits. His far-reaching insights suggest new possibilities for the environmental movement today and new ways of understanding American history."--Jacket.New directions in narrative history.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismArcadia in artArcadia in literatureCemeteriesEnvironmental aspectsUnited StatesCemeteriesSocial aspectsUnited StatesCemeteriesUnited StatesHistory19th centuryEnvironmental responsibilityUnited StatesEnvironmentalismSocial aspectsUnited StatesHuman ecologyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican literaturefast(OCoLC)fst00807113Arcadia in artfast(OCoLC)fst01896031Arcadia in literaturefast(OCoLC)fst01896032Cemeteriesfast(OCoLC)fst00850521Environmental responsibilityfast(OCoLC)fst00913443EnvironmentalismSocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00913553Human ecologyfast(OCoLC)fst00962941United StatesfastCriticism, interpretation, etc.fastHistory.fastAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Arcadia in art.Arcadia in literature.CemeteriesEnvironmental aspectsCemeteriesSocial aspectsCemeteriesHistoryEnvironmental responsibilityEnvironmentalismSocial aspectsHuman ecologyHistoryAmerican literature.Arcadia in art.Arcadia in literature.Cemeteries.Environmental responsibility.EnvironmentalismSocial aspects.Human ecology.393/.10973HIS054000HIS036040ARC008000SOC036000bisacshSachs Aaron(Aaron Jacob),1654770Yale University Press,CDXCDXOCLCOJSTORYDXCPWAUIDEBKUPME7BOCLCQOCLCFCOOOCLCOSNKOCLCOOSUOCLCOEBLCPDEBSZOCLOCLCOCOCUFK6UICGLOAPIFAGFVLOTZOCLCQMERUCIOGZCUU3WEZ9DEGRUSTFWRMOCLCQTXCVT2OCLCQWYULVTYOUDKCOCLCQUKAHLUKCREOCLCOOCLCQYUSBOOK9910817968303321Arcadian America4006834UNINA