V--2nd, Chap 14, V. in Love

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 12:56:52 CST 2011


FEMALE MESSIAH
http://madamepickwickartblog.com/quest-for-the-female-messiah/

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:35 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Back to particulars.....
>
> My claim is quite specific and rooted in the texts; P names Wilson as
> a major influence and I have connected the text to Mondaugan through
> Enfantin. Of course, as Wilson notes in his chapter on American
> Socialism, the labor, or work theme is never clearly divorced from the
> religious. Wilson spends a good deal of time correcting the
> mis-readings of dialectic and materialism, pointing out how the
> thousands of counter culture movements, including Brook Farm, spread
> like religious fever as the mainstream revival raged. This, it seems
> to me, is quite particular to the novel V..
>



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