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easel does it: the easel weasels
There is much babbling in the alt-politic community about the “buy local” phenomenon; a return to the roots and away, ostensibly, from the creative destruction of capitalism and a time travel voyage to more idyllic conditions, a kind of American … Continue reading
something sad, terrific
Nathaniel Hawthorne was ten years away from Brook Farm, the socialist, utopian project, before he wrote the book The Blithedale Romance, from his observations there. By then, the success of The Scarlet Letter had justified his habit of looking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Harold Bloom, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Leo Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, Nicolas Poussin
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grotesque castaway: permanent alienation
After the success of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the most famous American writers. But in the twelve years following his graduation from college in 1825, he was the most invisible. He went back to his mother’s … Continue reading
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Tagged American literature, Brook Farm, Brook Farm Nathaniel Hawthorne, Byeon Hyeok, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Blithedale Romance, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
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you can flee but you can’t hide
The first utopia was the Garden of Eden, but since no person knew what it was like, anyone may create it in their own image, the reason being an unhappiness with the world as it exists, pushing efforts to imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Brisbane, Brook Farm, Charles Fourier, Ellery Channing, George Ripley, Jeremy Bentham, John Humphrey Noyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oneida Community, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Social Reform Unity, William Heath
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the good life
Robert Owen built his own commune only to learn that transcendental ideals and prayer and sometimes group sex, are not in itself sufficient to weld a community together. Owen, a cotton mill owner in Scotland of progressive ideals dreamed of … Continue reading