Utopian Studies, March 22nd, 2000
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 Blithedale Romance: "a nice bunch of idealists, transcendentalists, brook farmers, and disintegrated gentry. All going slightly rotten." Of course, Hawthorne's classic portrait of the failures of Utopian dreams is anything but simple. Its many levels of ambiguity have perplexed and delighted readers for a hund...
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