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Article: Transcendental Utopias, Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- March 22, 1998
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Richard Francis. Transcendental Utopias, Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden.
Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1997. ix + 249 pp. $32.50.
The utopian experiments of the New England Transcendentalists are methodically examined in Richard Francis's book, Transcendental Utopias, Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden. Francis takes the reader on a journey through the physical and intellectual environments of each experiment, tracing their roots, their evolution, and their dissolutions. One of the; most interesting aspects of this book is the careful scrutinizing of the dynamics that existed among the various ...