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Article: Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and 'Walden'.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 1999
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Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and 'Walden'. By RICHARD FRANCIS. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. xiii + 256 pp. 25.50 [pounds sterling].
The title and subtitle of Richard Francis's study are neatly juxtaposed and nicely contrasted. We shall indeed be generally in an airy universe of transcendental utopias, whilst always being specifically anchored in time and grounded in place, between 1841 and 1847 in and around Concord, Massachusetts, where the competing claims of individual and community and the conflicting values of individualism and communitarianism were being extensively addressed, not only at ...
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... ... reenact the sights, sounds and ambiance of Brook Farm, an intellectual and social experiment in ... from noon to 5 p.m. next Saturday to mark Brook Farm's 150th anniversary. Brook Farm, which for a few years flourished as a commune ...
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