1st Edition
Somewhat on the Community System Representations of Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
By Andrew Loman
Copyright 2005
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Hawthorne wrote much of his major fiction in the decade that the theories of Charles Marie François Fourier crossed the Atlantic and contributed to a wave of communitarian experimentation in the American North. Famously, Hawthorne briefly lived and worked at Brook Farm, a Transcendentalist commune that formally converted to Fourierism when he had left and was embroiled in litigation to... Read more
Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Dreamers' Utopias: Communitarianism and Fourierism in Hawthorne's Works Prior to the American Romances; Chapter Three The Unpardonable Sin: Egotism as Ideology in The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance; Chapter Four Free Love and its Specters in the American Romances; Conclusion;
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Andrew Loman
