American Literature / Unit 7 AML 0620 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Brook Farm and the Communal Experiments
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The idea
The Transcendental Club, loosely organized in eighteen thirty-six, gathered Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker and others. Some members turned to reform and to experimental communities, Brook Farm the best known, where the aim was to combine manual labour with intellectual life.
In practice
A club, a magazine, and a farm.
Where people slip
The communities were short-lived; the writing was not.
Your place on the trail
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