Utopian Studies, March 22nd, 2006
Lawrence Foster, ed. Free Love in Utopia. John Humphrey Noyes and the Origin of the Oneida Community. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2001. lvi +370 pp. $39.95 The Oneida Community has received more attention than any other American commune, perhaps because its combination of religious and sexual experimentation rivals the imagination of literary utopias (and dystopias). Lawrence Fosters publication of selections from George Wallington Noyes's 2,200 page manuscript is a fascinating addition to the scholarship on the Oneidas and to utopian studies in general. The Noyes manuscript itself has had an ...
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