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Author |
: Louisa May Alcott |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 56 |
Release |
: 1981 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015005312676 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transcendental Wild Oats and Excerpts from the Fruitlands Diary by : Louisa May Alcott
He set out to make his utopian dream come true-Bronson Alcott, his wife and four daughters, and an odd assortment of friends who knew more about philosophy than they did about farming. Would their experience at Fruitlands last through the hard New England winter? Transcendentalist commune is for readers of all ages who love Alcott, history, or just a good story told with humor and sensitivity.
Author |
: Louisa May Alcott |
Publisher |
: Applewood Books |
Total Pages |
: 102 |
Release |
: 2011-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781557090966 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1557090963 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transcendental Wild Oats by : Louisa May Alcott
THIS 38 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands With Transcendental Wild Oats, by Louisa May Alcott. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766180042.
Author |
: Richard Francis |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 397 |
Release |
: 2010-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300169447 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300169442 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fruitlands by : Richard Francis
This is a definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten year old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals. Alcott and Lane developed their own version of the doctrine known as Transcendentalism, hoping to transform society and redeem the environment through a strict regime of veganism and celibacy. But physical suffering and emotional conflict, particularly between Lane and Alcott's wife, Abigail, made the community unsustainable. Drawing on the letters and diaries of those involved, the author explores the relationship between the complex philosophical beliefs held by Alcott, Lane, and their fellow idealists and their day to day lives. The result is a vivid and often very funny narrative of their travails, demonstrating the dilemmas and conflicts inherent to any utopian experiment and shedding light on a fascinating period of American history.
Author |
: Clara Endicott Sears |
Publisher |
: Applewood Books |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2005-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781557099570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 155709957X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands by : Clara Endicott Sears
In June of 1843, Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane, both reformers involved in the Transcendentalist movement, founded Fruitlands in an attempt to strengthen their spirituality through self-reliant, simple living. Joinmed by their families and about a dozen other individuals, the Con-Sociate family (as they called themselves) was to bring about a new Eden by cultivating a mystical and scetic way of life in a rural retreat. Compiling, in their own words, from letters, diaries, and books, and from the comments of friends and associates such as Emerson and Thoreau, Clara Endicott Sears, founder of Fruitlands Museum, tells the story of this famous encounter of transcendental philosophy with the realities of the New England soil and climate and the vagaries of human nature. Louisa May Alcott's classic satire based on her father's experiment, "Transcendental Wild Oats," completes the picture of a noble failure.
Author |
: Louisa May Alcott |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 74 |
Release |
: 2018-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1515426483 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781515426486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott by : Louisa May Alcott
Author |
: Catherine L. Albanese |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 640 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300134773 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300134770 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Republic of Mind and Spirit by : Catherine L. Albanese
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain. Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona-Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a 'wild' frontier were stymied by labour struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.-Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.
Author |
: John Matteson |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 512 |
Release |
: 2010-08-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393077575 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393077578 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by : John Matteson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.
Author |
: Susan Cheever |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2007-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780743264624 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0743264622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Bloomsbury by : Susan Cheever
A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.
Author |
: Louisa M. Alcott |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1789875404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781789875409 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands by : Louisa M. Alcott
This chronicle of Fruitlands, an agrarian community established in Harvard, Massachusetts, details the philosophy, creation and failure of the settlement. Founded by Bronson Alcott in 1843, Fruitlands was intended to be a utopian commune sustained by its own agriculture. The philosophical concepts of Transcendentalism, and its assertions regarding human morality and the potential of self-reliance, formed a cerebral bedrock. Yet the practical considerations of living were less accounted for: many residents preferred to philosophize than work the fields and animal labor was forbidden; the result being a shortage of food available to feed residents over winter. The strict living standards also caused discontent, and the project failed when unhappy occupants departed the site in January 1844. In the modern day, the Fruitlands project is considered a historical curiosity in Massachusetts. A museum was established on the original location, which details both Fruitlands and other attempts at achieving utopia in North America. Bronson Alcott was deeply disappointed that his commune failed, but continued working as a local teacher for many years afterward. His daughter Louisa May - who resided in Fruitlands as a girl - wrote a journal of the events, and later a treatment entitled Transcendental Wild Oats, which form part of this collection compiled by Clara Sears.
Author |
: Betsy Hartmann |
Publisher |
: Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2017-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609807412 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609807413 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The America Syndrome by : Betsy Hartmann
Has apocalyptic thinking contributed to some of our nation's biggest problems—inequality, permanent war, and the despoiling of our natural resources? From the Puritans to the present, historian and public policy advocate Betsy Hartmann sheds light on a pervasive but—until now—invisible theme shaping the American mindset: apocalyptic thinking, or the belief that the end of the world is nigh. Hartmann makes a compelling case that apocalyptic fears are deeply intertwined with the American ethos, to our detriment. In The America Syndrome, she seeks to reclaim human agency and, in so doing, revise the national narrative. By changing the way we think, we just might change the world.