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Alice Pyncheon
american
American Fourierists
American Romances
Author_Andrew Loman
blithedale
Blithedale Romance
brook
Brook Farm
Canterbury Pilgrims
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Contemporary Society
Emersonian Individualism
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farm
Fourier's Works
Fourierist Community
Fourierist Critique
Fourierist Theory
Gene Rally
Hawthorne's Criticism
Hawthorne's Portrait
Hawthorne's Representation
Jaffrey Pyncheon
Licentious System
merry
Merry Mount
mount
pyncheon
romance
romances
Scarlet Letter
Shaker Community
Silvery Veil
Sleepy Hollow
Veiled Lady
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138868663
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 recover money he had invested in the community. In his fiction, Hawthorne responded directly to Fourierism and its critique of capitalism. He used his experiences at Brook Farm as the inspiration for The Blithedale Romance , and in The House of the Seven Gables cast one of the principal characters as a recovering Fourierist. In The Scarlet Letter he engaged with Fourierist debates on marriage and the regulation of desire. Somewhat on the Community-System examines these interventions, and argues that Hawthorne's fiction both seeks to contain Fourierism and responds to its allure. Moreover, in formulating alternative, morally acceptable utopias (ones that are predicated on middle-class marriage), Hawthorne's fiction appropriates key aspects of Fourierist theory
