LEADER 06411oam 2201621I 450 001 9910779313703321 005 20230914143832.0 010 $a0-300-27664-8 010 $a0-300-18905-2 010 $a1-283-91531-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300189056 035 $a(CKB)2550000000996501 035 $a(OCoLC)823040831 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10640863 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803468 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12305159 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803468 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10811272 035 $a(PQKB)11094070 035 $a(DE-B1597)486265 035 $a(OCoLC)824655125 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300189056 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421101 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10640863 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL422781 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421101 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000996501 100 $a20120913h20132013 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aArcadian America $ethe death and life of an environmental tradition /$fAaron Sachs 210 1$aNew Haven ;$aLondon :$cYale University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (497 p.) 225 1 $aNew directions in narrative history 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-17640-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue : 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. 330 $a"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. 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