A Utopia of "Spheres and Sympathies": Science and Society in The Blithedale Romance and at Brook Farm.
From: Utopian Studies
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Date: 3/22/1998
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Author: WHITE, CRAIG
Critics of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance suggest an historical link to Brook Farm even though Hawthorne's claims are contrary in the story's preface. The characters in the narrative participate in the scientific revolution in Europe, but some scholars assert the story relates the history of utopianism and scientific and cultural change prior to the antebellum. They claim Brook Farm reflects the fuition and disolution of modern utopia.
Historical and fictional Utopias converge ...
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