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1 Introduction
2 Transcendentalism and its historical background
2.1 Faith in human potential and main thinkers
2.2 Hawthorne’s relation to transcendentalism
2.3 The Brook Farm experiment
3 The Blithedale Romance - a subverted utopia
3.1 Coverdale’s pessimism and harbingers of failure
3.1.1 Egotists and the naiveté of dreamers
3.1.2 The leitmotif of masquerading
3.2 Nature as a catalyst to God
3.2.1 Divinity of nature in contrast to urban life
3.2.2 Farm work as a key to transcendental experience
3.2.3 Opportunities and risks of mesmerism
3.3 The doctrine of self-reliance
3.3.1 Communal autarky
3.3.2 Hollingsworth’s misguided principle self-reliance
4 Concluding thoughts
5 Bibliography
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- Citation du texte
- B.A. Saskia Guckenburg (Auteur), 2013, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the transcendental movement and The Blithedale Romance as a novelistic critique, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/265526
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