The Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund

Transcendental Rescue In a Modern City, 1900-1915

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4973389
AutoresPhillip Gordon Mackintosh (0000-0002-7039-7467), Richard Anderson (0000-0002-7283-7219)
Año2009
Volumen99
Número4
Páginas539-562
Fecha de publicación2009-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2009.tb00446.x
OpenAlexW1991659764
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas51

The Toronto Star newspaper began rescuing poor children from the city's hottest, smokiest, and smelliest neighborhoods in 1901. The Fresh Air Fund, like park and playground planning, assumed that proximity to nature modified both health and behavior. Evoking transcendentalism—the idea that providential nature could move humanity into higher forms of existence—the Star sent children to the countryside near Toronto, albeit temporarily, assured of producing tangible health benefits. It also expected "nature" to convert the antibourgeois immorality of poor children into something more tolerable

Fresh air · Humanity · Immorality · Media studies · Morality · Newspaper · Political science · Sociology · Star (game theory · Transcendental number · American Literature and Culture · Canadian Identity and History · Engineering · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Philosophy