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

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"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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2013]
Colección:New directions in narrative history.
Temas:
1800-1899
Cemeteries > United States > History > 19th century.
Cemeteries > Social aspects > United States.
Cemeteries > Environmental aspects > United States.
Human ecology > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Arcadia in literature.
Arcadia in art.
Environmentalism > Social aspects > United States.
Environmental responsibility > United States.
Cimetières > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Environnementalisme > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Responsabilité environnementale > États-Unis.
Cimetières > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Cimetières > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
American literature
Arcadia in art
Arcadia in literature
Cemeteries
Environmental responsibility
Environmentalism > Social aspects
Human ecology
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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