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Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals

Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals

Machor, James L.

Paperback

Series: History of American Thought and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0299112845
ISBN13: 9780299112844
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Aug 30 2004
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
What has the city meant to Americans? James L. Machor explores this question in a provocative analysis of American responses to urbanization in the context of the culture's tendency to valorize nature and the rural world.
Although much attention has been paid to American rural-urban relations, Machor focuses on a dimension largely overlooked by those seeking to explain American conceptions of the city. While urban historians and literary critics have explicitly or implicitly emphasized the opposition between urban and rural sensibilities in America, an equally important feature of American thought and writing has been the widespread interest in collapsing that division. Convinced that the native landscape has offered special opportunities, Americans since the age of settlement have sought to build a harmonious urban-pastoral society combining the best of both worlds. Moreover, this goal has gone largely unchallenged in the culture except for the sophisticated responses in the writings of some of America's most eminent literary artists.

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