About the Series
About This Volume
List of Illustrations
PART ONE: THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE: THE COMPLETE TEXT
Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background
Chronology of Hawthorne's Life and Times
The Blithedale Romance [1964 Centenary Edition]
PART TWO: THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE: CULTURAL CONTEXTS
1. Prospects for Change
Karl Marx, On Alienated Labor
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, From The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Engels, From The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844
Orestes A. Brownson, From "The Laboring Classes"
George H. Evans, On Land Reform
George H. Evans, "Vote Yourself a Farm"
Solomon Northrup, The Slave's Work Day
William Lloyd Garrison, "To The Public"
Frederick Douglass, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
Abraham Lincoln, "Address to the Washingtonian Temperance Society of Springfield, Illinois"
Samuel Gridley Howe, From Report of the Minority of the Special Committee of the Boston Prison Discipline Society
Theodore Parker, From "A Sermon of the Dangerous Classes in Society"
Harriet Martineau, From "Miss Martineau On Mesmerism"
Margaret Fuller, From "The New Science; or, the Philosophy of Mesmerism or Animal Magnetism"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Earth's Holocaust"
2. The Idea of Community
Charles Fourier, The Impact of Industrialism, The Benefits of Association, and The Condition of Women
Albert Brisbane, From Social Destiny of Man, or Association and Reorganization of Industry
Robert Owen, On Individual Society vs. Cooperative Society
Frances Wright, From "Of Existing Evils, and Their Remedy"
John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community, On Marriage
Amos Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane, On the Community at Fruitlands
Louisa May Alcott, "Transcendental Wild Oats"
Mary Gove, On the Columbian Phalanx
Adin Ballou, On the Hopedale Community
Joseph Smith, The Wentworth Letter
Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The Quaker Settlement" (From Uncle Tom's Cabin)
3. Life at Brook Farm
George Ripley, From the "Letter to the Church in Purchase Street"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, From "Man the Reformer"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Letters to Sophia Peabody
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, From "Plan of the West Roxbury Community"
The Brook Farm Phalanx, Prospectus for The Harbinger
John Sullivan Dwight, On Life at Brook Farm
Rebecca Codman Butterfield, From "Reminiscences of Brook Farm"
4. Women's Roles and Rights
Angelina E. Grimké, "Human Rights Not Founded on Sex"
Catherine Becker, From A Treatise on Domestic Economy
Lydia Maria Child, On Womens' Rights
Margaret Fuller, From Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Nathaniel Hawthorne, On Margaret Fuller
Nathaniel Hawthorne, On the Death of Martha Hunt
Harriet Farley, "A Weaver's Reverie"
Elizabeth Cady Stanton et. al., "Declaration of Sentiments" and "Resolutions" Seneca Falls Convention
Selected Bibliography
Illustrations
The Times
Black and White Slaves in America and England
From Ten Nights in a Bar-Room
The Eastern Penitentiary
Dining Room at Sing Sing Prison
View of a Phalanx
A Group of Oneida Perfectionist
Pictures in {rogress
Title page from The Crisis
Obscene Orgies and Pernicious Teachings
Brook Farm
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sophia Amelia (Peabody) Hawthorne
From Reveries of a Bachelor
Rustic Dance after Sleigh Ride
Women's Rights Convention
A Natural Consequence
Proper Prudence
Margaret Fuller
Time Table of the Lower Mills
New England Textile Mill