Author: Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, West Roxbury, MassPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Constitution of the Brook Farm Association, for Industry and Education, West Roxbury, Mass
Author: Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, West Roxbury, MassPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Illustrated Catalogue of Early English and Later Literature Mainly in First Editions
Author: Edwin Babcock HoldenPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Margaret Fuller
Author: Charles CapperPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199756872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Filled with dramatic, ironic, and sometimes tragic turns, this superb biography captures the story of one of America's most extraordinary figures, producing at once the best life of Fuller ever written, and one of the great biographies in American history. In Volume II, Charles Capper illuminates Fuller's "public years," focusing on her struggles to establish her identity as an influential intellectual woman in the Romantic Age. He brings to life Fuller's dramatic mixture of inward struggles, intimate social life, and deep engagements with the movements of her time. He describes how Fuller struggled to reconcile high avant-garde cultural ideals and Romantic critical methods with democratic social and political commitments, and how she strove to articulate a cosmopolitan vision for her nation's culture and politics. Capper also offers fresh and often startlingly new treatments of Fuller's friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Giuseppe Mazzini, in addition to many others.
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Brook Farm
Author: Lindsay SwiftTranscendental Utopias
Author: Richard FrancisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501724193
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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 was to explain how human society could be reordered to benefit from this seriality. Some members of the movement believed in evolutionary progress, whereas others hoped to be the agents of a sudden millennial transformation. They differed, as well, in their views as to whether the fundamental social unit was the individual, the family, the phalanstery, or the community. 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.
Brook Farm
Author: Joel MyersonPublisher: Scholarly Title
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Transcendentalism
Author: Joel MyersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195122127
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
A collection of writings from leading figures of the 19th century American Transcendentalist movement.
Two Hundred Years of American Communes
Author: Iaácov OvedPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412840552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The United States is the only modern nation in which communes have continuously existed for the past two hundred years. This definitive history of communes in America examines the major factors that have supported the existence and growth of communes throughout American history. The most impressive survey of the communal experience since the works of Noyes and Nordhoff, it is informed by a deep respect for the human subjects and organizational forms of American communes. The findings in the analytical chapters are of considerably theoretical import beyond the historical narrative. Oved details the founding, growth, development, and sometimes failure of alternative societies from 1735 to 1939: Icaria, Ephrata, Oneida, Shaker, religious, secular, and socialist communes. Extensive reference material cited will assure this work a special place in the archives of the literature on communes.
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