The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the religious policy of Henry VIII. Thomas More was born...
Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritual works in Latin and English and thereby contributed...
Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature to produce a new literature keyed to his age; second,...
The Blithedale Romance (1852) is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. In Hawthorne (1879), Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous...
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Blithedale Romance. Ed. William E. Cain. Bedford Cultural Edition. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996. xvi + 512 pp. IN HIS PROVOCATIVE and perceptive Studies in Classic American Literature, D.H. Lawrence neatly summed up the plot of Hawthorne's...
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Brief Summary Of "The Blithedale Romance": Blithedale Farm, located near Boston, is a communal living project (a socialistic community where everyone works and all share the profits). The object of the community is to make mankind better than it is. Although...
In the following essay, Stoehr examines the impact of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life at the utopian colony, Brook Farm, on his novel The Blithedale Romance, and explores the tension between art and society in the novel.
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