The Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund : transcendental rescue in a modern city, 1900-1915

Auteurs :
MACKINTOSH, P.G.
ANDERSON, R.

Description :
The T.S. newspaper began rescuing poor children from the city's hottest and smokiest neighborhoods in 1901. The F.A.F. assumed that proximity to nature modified both health and behavior. Evoking transcendentalism, the Star sent children to the countryside near Toronto, assured of producing tangible health benefits. It also expected nature to convert the antibourgeois immorality of poor children into something more tolerable.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Geographical review, issn : 0016-7428, 2009, vol. 99, n°. 4, p. 539-562, nombre de pages : 24, Références bibliographiques : 3 p.

Date :
2009

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, New York, NY, American Geographical Society