Brook Farm : the dark side of utopia /

Brook Farm : the dark side of utopia / Sterling F. Delano.

"Life at Brook Farm resembled an Arcadian adventure, in which the days began with the choir singing Mozart and Haydn and ended with drama and dancing. But how accurate is this image? In the first comprehensive examination of the famous utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Sterling...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delano, Sterling F., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Collective settlements > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Transcendentalism (New England) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • "Fermenting and effervescing"
  • Beginnings
  • Organization
  • The seeds of fourierism
  • The winds of change
  • Reorganization
  • The second dispensation
  • From association to phalanx
  • The Harbinger
  • "Our severest crisis"
  • Fire
  • Beginning of the end
  • Back to Boston
  • "Done with Brook Farm."

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