Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marguerite Young, Mark van DorenSeries:Dalkey Archive EssentialsPublish date:2024-11-12Pages:438
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628975512ISBN-10:1628975512UPC:9781628975512Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, Utopias, United StatesBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, 19th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCT6ZK5W5C
Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.
In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana, a community originally founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who wanted to apply Scriptural communism to daily life in order to bring about the New Jerusalem. It was sold in 1825 to Robert Owen, the father of British socialism who, with a group of English immigrants, implemented his own theories for a perfect community, this time based on rationalism.
Both experiments failed, but Young finds in both a distinctively American yearning for utopia, which continues to characterize the American spirit to this day: a tradition of faith and folly can be traced from Owen's New Moral World to George Bush's New World Order.
Written with the same elegance, wit, and lyric beauty that distinguishes her fiction, Angel in the Forest was widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. This edition includes Mark Van Doren's introduction to Scribner's 1966 reprint.
In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana, a community originally founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who wanted to apply Scriptural communism to daily life in order to bring about the New Jerusalem. It was sold in 1825 to Robert Owen, the father of British socialism who, with a group of English immigrants, implemented his own theories for a perfect community, this time based on rationalism.
Both experiments failed, but Young finds in both a distinctively American yearning for utopia, which continues to characterize the American spirit to this day: a tradition of faith and folly can be traced from Owen's New Moral World to George Bush's New World Order.
Written with the same elegance, wit, and lyric beauty that distinguishes her fiction, Angel in the Forest was widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. This edition includes Mark Van Doren's introduction to Scribner's 1966 reprint.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781628975512ISBN-10:1628975512UPC:9781628975512Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, Utopias, United StatesBook Topic:Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, 19th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2302Product ID:SCT6ZK5W5C
Marguerite Young (1908-1995), born and reared in Indiana, moved to New York City in the 1940s, where she lived for the rest of her life. She is the author of two books of poetry, a collection of essays entitled Inviting the Muses, and two novels, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (also a Dalkey Archive Essential) and Harp Song for a Radical.
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