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OverviewAngel in the Forest is Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America. In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana, a community originally founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who wanted to apply Scriptural communism to daily life in order to bring about the New Jerusalem. It was sold in 1825 to Robert Owen, the father of British socialism 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 Forestwas widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. This edition includes Mark Van Doren's introduction to Scribner's 1966 reprint. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marguerite Young , Mark Van DorenPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press ISBN: 9781628975512ISBN 10: 1628975512 Pages: 331 Publication Date: 26 December 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsContents New Harmony Today—A Glimpse in Summer, 1940 Backward into Old Harmony—A Dissolving Vista The Children of the Ozarks, 1940 The Children of Israel A Journey to the Wabash A Machine Like Clockwork A City Whose Ten Gates Are of Gold Frederick Rapp, the Lord Temporal The Exodus of the Rappites from Harmony The Coming of One The Fading of the Golden Rose Another Coming, Another Dispensation A Pilgrim's Progress Dearest Caroline An Eden of Children Paradise Was Lost Jehovah and Rousseau Interviews with Emperors and Kings New Harmony, the Goal of Man America, the Promised Land The Pears Family The Fool of Nature Noah's Ark, the Maid of Mist, the Boatload of Knowledge New Harmony, the Golden Rose An Adult View Serpents in the Garden The Declaration of Mental Independence Exodus from New Harmony Glaucas, 1940 The Third Age of New Harmony Robert Owen's Ideal Made Real to Dwell Among Us Builder of Old Harmony Utopia in Bedlam Farewell to New HarmonyReviewsWhen a poet chooses to write history facts gain in power and in dimension. Young is a meticulous scholar, but she illumines every description and every character with her laser light of significance. Her facts radiate wit and irony and are incarnated in human beings. -Anais Nin, Los Angeles Times One of my very treasured books . . . the best book I know on the subject of the early primitive religious cults. I hope it will get the attention it deserves. -Katherine Anne Porter Author InformationMarguerite Young (1908-1995), born and reared in Indiana, moved to New York City in the 1940s, where she lived for the rest of her life. She is the author of two books of poetry, a collection of essays entitled Inviting the Muses, and two novels, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (also a Dalkey Archive Essential) and Harp Song for a Radical. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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