TY - BOOK AB - "Life at Brook Farm resembled an Arcadian adventure, in which the days began with the choir singing Mozart and Haydn and ended with drama and dancing. But how accurate is this image? In the first comprehensive examination of the famous utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Sterling Delano reveals a surprisingly grim side to paradise as the Brook Farmers faced relentless financial pressures, a declining faith in their leaders, and smoldering class antagonisms." From the bookjacket. AU - Delano, Sterling F., CN - HX656.B8 CN - HX656.B8 CY - Cambridge, Mass. : DA - 2004. ID - 1380421 KW - Collective settlements KW - Transcendentalism (New England) KW - Collective settlements. KW - Transcendentalism (New England) KW - Brook Farm Phalanx KW - Transzendentale Erfahrung KW - Utopieën. KW - Brook Farm Phalanx. KW - Transzendentale Erfahrung. N2 - "Life at Brook Farm resembled an Arcadian adventure, in which the days began with the choir singing Mozart and Haydn and ended with drama and dancing. But how accurate is this image? In the first comprehensive examination of the famous utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Sterling Delano reveals a surprisingly grim side to paradise as the Brook Farmers faced relentless financial pressures, a declining faith in their leaders, and smoldering class antagonisms." From the bookjacket. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, PP - Cambridge, Mass. : PY - 2004. SN - 0674011600 SN - 9780674011601 T1 - Brook Farm :the dark side of utopia / TI - Brook Farm :the dark side of utopia / ER -