Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden

by Richard Francis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801430933
• ISBN13: 9780801430930
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher