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Somewhat on the Community System - Representations of Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Hardcover, New)
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Somewhat on the Community System - Representations of Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
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Hawthorne wrote much of his major fiction in the decade that the
theories of Charles Marie Francois Fourier crossed the Atlantic and
contributed to a wave of communitarian experimentation in the
American North. Famously, Hawthorne briefly lived and worked at
Brook Farm, a Transcendentalist commune that formally "converted"
to Fourierism when he had left and was embroiled in litigation to
recover money he had invested in the community. In his fiction,
Hawthorne responded directly to Fourierism and its critique of
capitalism. He used his experiences at Brook Farm as the
inspiration for "The Blithedale Romance," and in "The House of the
Seven Gables" cast one of the principal characters as a recovering
Fourierist. In "The Scarlet Letter" he engaged with Fourierist
debates on marriage and the regulation of desire. ""Somewhat on
the" "Community-System"" examines these interventions, and argues
that Hawthorne's fiction both seeks to contain Fourierism and
responds to its allure. Moreover, in formulating alternative,
morally acceptable utopias (ones that are predicated on
middle-class marriage), Hawthorne's fiction appropriates key
aspects of Fourierist theory
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