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Arcadian America : the death and life of an environmental tradition / / Aaron Sachs



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Autore: Sachs Aaron (Aaron Jacob) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Arcadian America : the death and life of an environmental tradition / / Aaron Sachs Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven ; ; London : , : Yale University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (497 p.)
Disciplina: 393/.10973
Soggetto topico: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Arcadia in art
Arcadia in literature
Cemeteries - Environmental aspects - United States
Cemeteries - Social aspects - United States
Cemeteries - United States - History - 19th century
Environmental responsibility - United States
Environmentalism - Social aspects - United States
Human ecology - United States - History - 19th century
American literature
Cemeteries
Environmental responsibility
Environmentalism - Social aspects
Human ecology
Soggetto geografico: United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Classificazione: HIS054000HIS036040ARC008000SOC036000
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: Arcadian America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-300-27664-8
0-300-18905-2
1-283-91531-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779313703321
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Serie: New directions in narrative history.