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Title: |
The Blithedale Romance |
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| By (author): |
Nathaniel Hawthorne Edited by: Michael J. Colacurcio, Luke Bresky |
| ISBN10-13: |
1554811236 : 9781554811236 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Weight: |
.491 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - July 2015 |
| List Price: |
22.95 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorneâ s own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the â most romantic episodeâ in his life, The Blithedale Romance is one of the most engaging and complex of Hawthorneâ 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 editorsâ new introduction helps the reader to negotiate Blithedaleâ 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 novelâ s references to womenâ s emancipation, antislavery, and Utopian socialism. |
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