Tuesday, May 14, 2019

The Blithedale Romance: Are philanthropists inherently selfish?


This novel deals a lot with causes: the Transcendentalist and Fourierian ideals of the Blithedale project, the feminism of Zenobia, and of course the reformation of criminals which Hollingsworth devotes himself to.  What does Miles (or Hawthorne?) say about the dangers of this?  To what extent do you think he is right?

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