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Bezig met laden... Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia (2010)door Richard Francis
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A detailed description of Alcott's Utopian experiment. There was often more detail into the philosophical underpinnings than I wanted to read but then that was the nature of the experiment. The book did give a good job of presenting its significance and echoes in today's attitudes ( ) I'm not more than half way through this book yet, but I find that it gives a great deal of detail about utopian theories and several principle members of that movement in the 1840's. The subject is of a rather narrow range of interest, but it helps in understanding that era and how we, as Americans, have become who we are. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful-but most significant-utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals.Alcott and Lane developed their own version of the doctrine known as Transcendentalism, hoping to transform society and redeem the environment through a strict regime of veganism and celibacy. But physical suffering and emotional conflict-particularly between Lane and Alcott's wife, Abigail-made the community unsustainable.Drawing on the letters and diaries of those involved, Richard Francis explores the relationship between the complex philosophical beliefs held by Alcott, Lane, and their fellow idealists and their day-to-day lives. The result is a vivid and often very funny narrative of their travails, demonstrating the dilemmas and conflicts inherent to any utopian experiment and shedding light on a fascinating period of American history. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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