How did this research help me come to my final research question? Reflect on the ways the workshop shaped your topic and refined your research question?<\/p>\n
My curiosity about the “Americanization of Fourierism” actually manifested while I read the originally background source about Brook Farm by Carl J Guarneri. Initially, I saw this American adaptation as a method of calculated deception as American Fourierists like Albert Brisbane adjusted the theory to be more appealing to the average nineteenth century American. But as I read another article by Guarneri, one that is especially dedicated to the American adaptation of Fourierism and utopia in general, I gained a new perspective about the approach used by the utopian socialists. To adequately understand the development of American Fourierism, I had to \u00a0analyze multiple primary sources. First, I read Charles Fourier’s piece describing his vision of a true phalanx and then compared this source to “Association” by Albert Brisbane, which is essentially the preliminary establishment of American Fourierism. I also read Horace Greeley’s letters and “The Harbinger,” paying close attention to the vocabulary and rhetoric used in these sources to persuade the American people. I realized that instead of simply asking how Brisbane and others Americanized Fourierism, I should focus on the circumstances of this modification and the resulting implications?<\/p>\n
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