The Blithedale Romance A New England Gothic Tale of Utopian Reform, Brook Farm Ideals, Mesmerism, and Moral Self-Deception
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Good PressSeitenzahl
128
Maße (L/B/H)
0,7/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
198 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-272-8491-7
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance is a searching fictional meditation on utopian reform, private desire, and the theatricality of moral idealism. Set in a rural communal experiment modeled in part on Brook Farm, the novel blends social satire, psychological romance, and Gothic ambiguity. Through the reflective, unreliable voice of Miles Coverdale, Hawthorne examines how schemes of collective renewal are entangled with egotism, erotic rivalry, secrecy, and spiritual blindness. Hawthorne's own brief residence at Brook Farm in 1841 strongly informs the novel's atmosphere and skepticism. Though sympathetic to the era's reformist energies, he remained wary of abstractions that ignored the darker complexities of human nature. His Puritan ancestry, lifelong fascination with guilt and concealment, and mastery of symbolic romance all shape the book's treatment of Zenobia, Hollingsworth, Priscilla, and Coverdale as figures caught between social aspiration and inward compulsion. This novel is highly recommended to readers interested in American Renaissance literature, antebellum reform movements, and the moral psychology of failed idealism. It rewards careful reading: beneath its communal setting lies one of Hawthorne's most intricate studies of observation, self-deception, and the perilous distance between noble principles and human conduct.
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