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000348642 1001_ $$aFrancis, Richard,$$d1945-
000348642 24510 $$aFruitlands :$$bthe Alcott family and their search for utopia /$$cby Richard Francis.
000348642 260__ $$aNew Haven ;$$aLondon :$$bYale University Press,$$cc2010.
000348642 300__ $$aviii, 321 p., [8] p. of plates :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000348642 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000348642 5050_ $$aThe Seed -- To reproduce perfect men -- Now I know what thought is -- A joy in a winding sheet -- Fabling of worlds -- Rembrandt's pot -- The Fruit -- Hesitations at the plunge -- The mind yields, falters, and fails -- The little wicket gate -- The principle of inverse ratio -- Diffusive illitimable benevolence -- The new waves curl -- Utter subjection of the body -- The consociate family life -- Penniless pilgrimages -- Softly doth the sun descend -- Nectar in a sieve -- Cain and Abel -- Tumbledown Hall.
000348642 520__ $$aThis is a definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten year old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals.  Alcott and Lane developed their own version of the doctrine known as Transcendentalism, hoping to transform society and redeem the environment through a strict regime of veganism and celibacy. But physical suffering and emotional conflict, particularly between Lane and Alcott's wife, Abigail, made the community unsustainable.  Drawing on the letters and diaries of those involved, the author explores the relationship between the complex philosophical beliefs held by Alcott, Lane, and their fellow idealists and their day to day lives. The result is a vivid and often very funny narrative of their travails, demonstrating the dilemmas and conflicts inherent to any utopian experiment and shedding light on a fascinating period of American history.
000348642 60010 $$aAlcott, Amos Bronson,$$d1799-1888$$xFamily.
000348642 650_0 $$aUtopias$$zMassachusetts$$zHarvard$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000348642 650_0 $$aCommunal living$$zMassachusetts$$zHarvard$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000348642 650_0 $$aTranscendentalism (New England)
000348642 651_0 $$aFruitlands (Harvard, Mass.)$$xHistory.
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