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Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden

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Description for Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.

New England Transcendentalism was a vibrant and many-sided movement whose members are probably best remembered for their utopian experiments, their attempts to reconcile the contingent world of history with what they perceived as the stable and patterned world of nature. Richard Francis has written the first book to explore in detail the ideological basis of the three famous experiments during the 1840s: Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Henry David Thoreau's "community of one" on the shores of Walden Pond.

Francis suggests that at the heart of Transcendentalism was a belief that all phenomena are connected in a repetitive sequence. The task ... Read more

The story of the three communities was, inevitably, also the story of particular individuals, and Francis highlights the lives and ideas of such leaders as George Ripley, W. H. Channing, Bronson Alcott, Charles Lane, and Theodore Parker. The consistent underlying beliefs of the New England Transcendentalists have exerted a powerful influence on American intellectual and cultural history ever since.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
445g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801473807
SKU
V9780801473807
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Richard Francis
Richard Francis is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University College. His is the author of nine novels and of biographies of Ann Lee, the founder of the Shakers, and Samuel Sewall, one of the Salem witch trial judges.

Reviews for Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden
Francis does historians an important service by suggesting that they should move beyond such artificial dichotomies as individual versus community in their attempt to understand the complexities of transcendentalism.
Journal of American History
The book's argument is persuasive.... Its research base in both manuscript and printed sources is impressive. Communal studies scholars will find the work of value ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden


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