Oneida utopia : a community searching for human happiness and prosperity / Anthony Wonderley.
2017
HX656.O5 W59 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Oneida utopia : a community searching for human happiness and prosperity / Anthony Wonderley.
ISBN
9781501702709 (hardcover)
150170270X (hardcover)
150170270X (hardcover)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
xi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
HX656.O5 W59 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.7709747/64
Summary
"A fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm. The Oneida Community of upstate New York was dedicated to living as one family and to the sharing of all property, work, and love. Anthony Wonderley is a sensitive guide to the things and settings of Oneida life from its basis in John H. Noyes's complicated theology, through experiments in free love and gender equality, to the moment when the commune transformed itself into an industrial enterprise based on the production of silverware. Rather than drawing a sharp boundary between spiritual concerns and worldly matters, Wonderley argues that commune and company together comprise a century-long narrative of economic success, innovative thinking, and abiding concern for the welfare of others. Oneida Utopia seamlessly combines the evidence of social life and intellectual endeavor with the testimony of built environment and material culture. Wonderley shares with readers his intimate knowledge of evidence from the Oneida Community: maps and photographs, quilts and furniture, domestic objects and industrial products, and the biggest artifact of all, their communal home. Wonderley also takes a novel approach to the thought of the commune's founder, examining individually and in context Noyes's reactions to interests and passions of the day, including revivalism, millennialism, utopianism, and spiritualism"-- Publisher's Web site.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-264) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: A good story told truly
Perfectionism
Putney
Oneida birthed and left behind
Creating a community
Gender and sex
Buildings, landscapes, and traps
Industrialization
Breakup
A silverware company
Welfare capitalism
Conclusion: Looking backward.
Perfectionism
Putney
Oneida birthed and left behind
Creating a community
Gender and sex
Buildings, landscapes, and traps
Industrialization
Breakup
A silverware company
Welfare capitalism
Conclusion: Looking backward.