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The last puritans.(Review)(Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia)(Book Review)
BROOK Farm was the most visible, and in some ways most successful, of the many American secular utopian experiments of the 1840s. This decade, as Sterling Delano explains in Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia, ([dagger]) was one of our nation's most distinctive, infused as it was by the idea of the perfectibility of humanity. Delano's book is impressively researched but also, through no fault of his own, pretty boring. The "dark side" of the experiment just isn't very dark, consisting mainly of the community's chronic inability to achieve financial solvency, as well as ordinary quarrels over organization. Social utopians don't usually deserve our sympathy, but I put down ...
- Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and...
- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Butterfield, R.W. April 1, 1999 700+ words
...Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and 'Walden'. By RICHARD...theory but briefly in practice. The Brook Farm cooperative community, which involved...are George Ripley, the guiding hand of Brook Farm; Bronson Alcott, the paterfamilias...
- WEST ROXBURY MDC STILL EYEING BROOK FARM DUKAKIS BUDGET PLAN WILL CARRY $3M TO...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Marvin Pave, Globe Staff February 24, 1987 700+ words
Brook Farm in West Roxbury, once home to a 19th...include $3 million for the purchase of Brook Farm in a capital outlay budget for open...year. A $2.1 million bond issue for Brook Farm's purchase was passed in 1974 but expired...
- COMMUNE-ISH PLOT THICKENS ON BROOK FARM : THE FACTS.(L.A. LIFE) (theater review)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) July 18, 1997 700+ words
...Massachusetts cow pasture. Founded in 1841, Brook Farm became a famous hotbed of free thinking...chronicler. Nathaniel Hawthorne, a onetime Brook Farm regular, took a crack in ``The Blithedale...identity. A gentlemen's co-op, Brook Farm was set up by former Unitarian minister...
- A Utopia of "Spheres and Sympathies": Science and Society in The Blithedale...
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies WHITE, CRAIG March 22, 1998 700+ words
...Historical and fictional Utopias converge at Brook Farm, where Nathaniel Hawthorne was a founding...stand for Margaret Fuller, who visited Brook Farm; the reformer Hollingsworth (or the...minimized any reference the novel may have to Brook Farm. (Noyes 107; Guarneri 2). Thus...
- Transcendental Utopias, Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and...
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Alberti, Charles March 22, 1998 700+ words
...Utopias, Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden. Ithaca and...Utopias, Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden. Francis takes...begins with the most complex community at Brook Farm and piece by piece unravels a tapestry...
- BROOK FARM VILLAGE
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe March 20, 1988 700+ words
The second phase of Brook Farm Village, a condominium development...Trust, developer and contractor for Brook Farm Village, began construction on Phase...Estate, exclusive marketing agent for Brook Farm Village, is now signing nonbinding...
- Brook Farm
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart January 1, 1986 700+ words
Brook Farm, cooperative community (1841–47) near West Roxbury, Mass...community to apply its theories, forming a stock company under the name Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education. Among those interested in it...
- BROOK FARM CONCERT KEEPS TRADITION.(Local)(Concert review)
- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) August 16, 2009 700+ words
...Welsch Contributing writers David Ying welcomed guests to Brook Farm for the 30th anniversary of the Skaneateles Festival saying...Skaneateles Festival presents Musical Memories III. Where: Brook Farm. When: Festival runs through Sept. 5. Attendance: 350...
