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- catalog abstract "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 on 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.".
- catalog contributor b10232347.
- catalog coverage "Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)".
- catalog coverage "Fruitlands (Harvard, Mass.)".
- catalog coverage "Walden Woods (Mass.)".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Nature versus History -- Ch. 2. Brook Farm and Masquerade -- Ch. 3. Brook Farm: The Law of Groups and Series -- Ch. 4. Brook Farm as Sacrifice -- Ch. 5. Fruitlands: Convergence -- Ch. 6. Fruitlands: Divergence -- Ch. 7. Walden: The Community of One.".
- catalog description "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 on 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.".
- catalog description "Includes index.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 256 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801430933 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)".
- catalog spatial "Fruitlands (Harvard, Mass.)".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts".
- catalog spatial "Walden Woods (Mass.)".
- catalog subject "335/.02/09744 21".
- catalog subject "Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)".
- catalog subject "HX655.M4 F73 1997".
- catalog subject "Transcendentalism (New England)".
- catalog subject "Utopias Massachusetts Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Nature versus History -- Ch. 2. Brook Farm and Masquerade -- Ch. 3. Brook Farm: The Law of Groups and Series -- Ch. 4. Brook Farm as Sacrifice -- Ch. 5. Fruitlands: Convergence -- Ch. 6. Fruitlands: Divergence -- Ch. 7. Walden: The Community of One.".
- catalog title "Transcendental utopias : individual and community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden / Richard Francis.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".