The Blithedale Romance

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novel

The Blithedale Romance is an 1852 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores idealism, social reform, and human psychology through the story of a utopian community loosely inspired by the Brook Farm experiment.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	novel →
author	Nathaniel Hawthorne →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
followedBy	The Marble Faun →
follows	The House of the Seven Gables →
genre	psychological fiction → romantic novel → social novel →
hasAdaptation	stage adaptations →
hasCriticalReception	mixed contemporary reviews → significant later critical attention →
hasLiteraryForm	prose →
hasPart	Chapter I: Old Moodie → Chapter II: Blithedale → Chapter III: A Knot of Dreamers → Chapter IV: The Supper-Table → Chapter IX: Hollingsworth, Zenobia, and Priscilla → Chapter V: Until Bedtime → Chapter VI: Coverdale’s Sick-Chamber → Chapter VII: The Convalescent → Chapter VIII: A Modern Arcadia → Chapter X: Eliot’s Pulpit → Chapter XI: The Wood-Path → Chapter XII: Coverdale’s Hermitage → Chapter XIII: Zenobia’s Legend → Chapter XIV: Eliot’s Pulpit (Second Visit) → Chapter XIX: Zenobia’s Drawing-Room → Chapter XV: A Crisis → Chapter XVI: Leave-Takings → Chapter XVII: The Hotel → Chapter XVIII: The Boarding-House → Chapter XX: They Vanish → Chapter XXI: An Old Acquaintance → Chapter XXII: Fauntleroy → Chapter XXIII: A Village Hall → Chapter XXIV: The Masqueraders → Chapter XXIX: Miles Coverdale’s Confession → Chapter XXV: The Three Together → Chapter XXVI: Zenobia and Coverdale → Chapter XXVII: Midnight → Chapter XXVIII: Blithedale Pasture → Chapter XXX: Conclusion →
inspiredBy	Brook Farm →
literaryMovement	American Romanticism →
mainCharacter	Hollingsworth → Miles Coverdale → Priscilla → Professor Westervelt → Zenobia →
narrator	Miles Coverdale →
originalLanguage	English →
partOf	Nathaniel Hawthorne’s major novels →
placeOfPublication	Boston →
publicationYear	1852 →
publisher	Ticknor, Reed and Fields →
setting	utopian community →
structure	first-person narrative →
theme	communal living → disillusionment → gender roles → human psychology → idealism → individualism → social reform → utopianism →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Nathaniel Hawthorne →	notableWork
The Marble Faun →	precededBy