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The Blithedale Romance

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Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the “most romantic episode” in his life, The Blithedale Romance is one of the most engaging and complex of Hawthorne’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 editors’ new introduction helps the reader to negotiate Blithedale’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 novel’s references to women’s emancipation, antislavery, and Utopian socialism.

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ISBN: 9781554811236
Publication date: 30th July 2015
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 376 pages
Series: Broadview Editions
Genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Fiction