Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist
community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance tells of the
attempts of a like-minded group to begin reforming a dissipated
America. However, rather than dropping bad habits and changing the
world, Coverdale the prurient bachelor, Hollingsworth the furious
philanthropist, Zenobia the voluptuous feminist, and Priscilla the
vulnerable seamstress soon find themselves pursuing egotistical
paths which must lead ultimately to tragedy. Evoking a bright rural
idyll which fails to survive the ravages of lust and power,
Hawthorne cynically undermines the fatuities of nineteenth-century
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