caa a22 4500 469025190 CHVBK 20180323132728.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00241216 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00241216 Bowden M. Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, 01610, Worcester, MA, USA aut Invented tradition and Academic convention in geographical thought about New England [Elektronische Daten] [M. Bowden] In the histories of colonial (pre-revolutionary) New England environment and landscape a three-stage process is recapitulated. An image of the past was formed which was factitious, but for reasons largely of self-glorification of the settlers the image was raised to the level of myth, memory of the actuality completely erased in one generation. Finally the myth became universally accepted by the populace — an invented tradition — the academy eventually giving it the stamp of (uncritical) approval and making it an established convention. Seven invented traditions/conventions are described: 1) The native American as Ignoble Savage living off the land but with no right to it, 2) the environment as a Desart Wildernesse, later transposed in the nineteenth century to an image of 3) the impenetrable primeval forest, 4) the culture shock of this primordial world stripping the settlers of English regional/cultural differences and making them instant "Americans”, or generalized (Puritan) New Englanders, 5) the colonial agricultural village as universal settlement pattern for colonists of this wilderness, 6) the fabled colonial green as characteristic of these villages, defensive base for conquest of the surrounding dark forest, and 7) the colonial New Englander as prosperous yeoman in a Jeffersonian garden. The reality and actuality that can be reconstructed belies the invention and convention on every count. In the cases of all seven invented traditions one can discern a period of image formation of variable length, a period of myth creation of about 25 years in which memory of the actual past was erased — usually periods of stress and self-doubt — and then a period when one invented a better and simpler past. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/2(1992-02-01), 187-194 0343-2521 26:2<187 1992 26 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241216 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00241216 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bowden M. Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, 01610, Worcester, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/2(1992-02-01), 187-194 0343-2521 26:2<187 1992 26 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer