Envisioning Utopia: Transcendentalist and Fourierist Landscapes at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts

Preucel, Robert W.; Pendery, Steven R.

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“…In a similar vein, the short‐lived Fruitlands community has attracted scholarly interest due to its founding by fellow transcendentalist and education reformer, Bronson Alcott, the father of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott (Francis, , ; Matteson, ) . From the mid‐twentieth century on, scholars have slowly shifted their research on Brook Farm and Fruitlands away from studying only its famous members and toward highlighting the communities' role in shaping broader social movements including the women's rights movement (Andrews, ; Argersinger & Cole, ; Cole, ; Preucel & Pendery, ; Rose, ; Wayne, ). This trend in the scholarship also reflects broader trends in communal studies scholarship, which have shifted away from analyzing community members as isolationists and instead viewing them as historical actors entrenched in the social and political movements of their era.…”

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confidence: 99%

On Earth as it is in heaven: A study of nineteenth‐century religious communal experiments in the United States

Hart

2019

Religion Compass

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This article provides an introduction to the scholarship on religious communal experiments in nineteenth-century United States for scholars and students of history. The author approaches this scholarship from the perspective of a historian, thus primarily exploring historians' scholarship on these communities. In a similar vein, this article highlights historical communities, as opposed to those utopias that remained exclusively within the literary genre. This article first explains the history of communal studies scholarship and its traditional focus on the "big three" communities: Oneida, the Shakers, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, previously referred to as the Mormons. The article then explores the evolution of the scholarship since the mid-twentieth century, including the implementation of new historical methodologies and emphases on race and gender in the study of these communities. Finally, this article looks toward the future of communal studies scholarship, anticipating the next direction this scholarship will take.

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Section: Beyond the “Big Three”mentioning

confidence: 99%