Somewhat on the Community System

Name: Somewhat on the Community System
Brand: Routledge
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By Andrew Loman

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Hawthorne wrote much of his major fiction in the decade that the theories of Charles Marie Franois Fourier crossed the Atlantic and contributed to a wave of communitarian experimentation in the American North. Famously, Hawthorne briefly lived and worked at Brook Farm, a Transcendentalist commune that formally "converted" to Fourierism when he had left and was embroiled in litigation to recover money he had invested in the community. In his fiction, Hawthorne responded directly to Fourierism and its critique of capitalism. He used his experiences at Brook Farm as the inspiration for "The Blithedale Romance, and in "The House of the Seven Gables cast one of the principal characters as a recovering Fourierist. In "The Scarlet Letter he engaged with Fourierist debates on marriage and the regulation of desire. ""Somewhat on the "Community-System" examines these interventions, and argues that Hawthorne's fiction both seeks to contain Fourierism and responds to its allure. Moreover, in formulating alternative, morally acceptable utopias (ones that are predicated on middle-class marriage), Hawthorne's fiction appropriates key aspects of Fourierist theory

Product details

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

184

Release Date:

2005-10-30

Publication Date:

2005-08-30

Publisher:

Routledge

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0415975514

ISBN13:

9780415975513

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

426 g

Height:

157 cm

Width:

235 cm

Thickness:

15 cm

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