Angel in the Forest – A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias: A Fariy Tale of Two Utopias (American Literature) - Softcover

Young, Marguerite; Van Doren, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564780546 ISBN 13: 9781564780546

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994

Synopsis

This is the first paperback edition of Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.Angel in the Forest recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana. The original community was founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who, with a group of English immigrants, implemented his own theories for a perfect community, this time based on rationalism. Both experiments failed, but Young finds in both a distinctively American yearning for utopia, which continues to characterize the American spirit to this day: a tradition of faith and folly can be traced from Owen's New Moral World to George Bush's New World Order. Written with the same elegance, wit, and lyric beauty that distinguishes her fiction, Angel in the Forest was widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. This edition includes Mark Van Doren's introduction to Scribner's 1966 reprint.

About this title

About the Authors

Young taught creative writing at Indiana, Iowa, Columbia, Fairleigh Dickinson, and Fordham universities as well as the New School for Social Research.

Keith A. Sculle is the head of research and education at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. He is a coathor, with John A. Jakle, of five books related to automobile culture in America, including Lots of Parking and Fast Food.

Rogers is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Tennessee, Martin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564780546
• ISBN 13: 9781564780546
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 331