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Alex and Matt discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major novel, inspired by his time at the Transcendentalist/Fourierist Brook Farm Commune in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1841. A deeper introduction to utopian socialist Charles Fourier, who is mentioned in both this novel and The House of the Seven Gables. Hawthorne's fear of mesmerism and political reform. Coverdale's incel energy. Hollingsworth's fascist misogyny. Women's work. Marx and Engels dunk on utopian socialists.

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References:

Beauchamp, Gorman (2002). Hawthorne and the Universal Reformers. Utopian Studies. 13 (2):38 - 52.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and Richard H. Millington. The Blithedale Romance. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011.

Jennings, Chris. Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism. New York: Random House, 2017.

Lawrence, D. H. Studies in Classic American Literature.1923. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP6wDm8WHGk

Marx, Karl, Friedrich Engels, and A. J. P. Taylor. The Communist Manifesto. New York: Penguin Books, 1985.