When I came to the conclusion that the editors of The Harbinger decided to limit mentioning the community of Brook Farm to only six times so they could focus on issues that catered to the outside public, it immediately grabbed my attention. The other…
A lot of my research was focused on The Harbinger, and how it sought a connection to the outside community to spread the word about the Associationist beliefs originating from Charles Fourier and about the Brook Farm community. However, I did find a …
I immediately go to my primary sources to quote and explain before my secondary, because they are reflective of the time and very insightful. It’s essential to my paper because I am writing about a newspaper, so having direct quotes and passages …
Why should you be interested in Brook Farm, and why should you really care about learning about the community and its weekly newspaper? My specific research focused on Brook Farm’s publication, The Harbinger. After studying it for a little whil…
When I started researching more about the Fourierest publications, I decided to settle on a specific one. Although they had a few circulating at the time, The Harbinger was a newspaper specific to Brook Farm. Starting the newspaper was an idea initia…
I find the Fourierest Phalanxes very interesting because the plan was so well detailed even up to the exact amount of members that should be admitted. Fourier’s original ideas were well thought out and focused a lot on a special “divine soc…