The Blithedale Romance Paperback - 2015
by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Michael J. Colacurcio (Editor); Luke Bresky (Editor)
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Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the "most romantic episode" in his life, The Blithedale Romance is one of the most engaging and complex of Hawthorne's novels. Recounting the hopeful formation and slow fragmentation of a reform-minded socialist community in antebellum Massachusetts, the novel has increasingly preoccupied commentators on American literature and culture over the last few decades.
The editors' new introduction helps the reader to negotiate Blithedale's literary difficulties by offering a detailed reflection on the main problems confronted by past and present interpreters of the novel. Appendices expand on the central historical theme of reform, highlighting the novel's references to women's emancipation, antislavery, and Utopian socialism.
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- Title The Blithedale Romance
- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne; Michael J. Colacurcio (Editor); Luke Bresky (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 376
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press Inc
- Date 2015
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781554811236 / 1554811236
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: New England
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Massachusetts
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015298159
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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