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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Sachs, Aaron (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Arcadian America [Texte imprimé] : the death and life of an environmental tradition / Aaron Sachs
Publication : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale university press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-484 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : New directions in narrative history
Lien à la collection : New directions in narrative history
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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 acknowledgement 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"--
Sujet(s) : Cimetières -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Cimetières -- Environnement -- États-Unis
Arcadie (Grèce) -- Dans la littérature
Arcadie (Grèce) -- Dans l'art
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300176407 (hardback). - ISBN 0300176406 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb436490614
Notice n° :
FRBNF43649061
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