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Anthony Wonderley

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9781501709807

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

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Oneida Utopia is a fresh and holistic treatment of a long-standing social experiment born of revival fervor and communitarian enthusiasm. The Oneida Community of upstate New York was dedicated to living as one family and to the sharing of all property, work, and love. Anthony Wonderley is a sensitive guide to the things and settings of Oneida life from its basis in John H. Noyes's complicated theology, through experiments in free love and gender equality, to the moment when the commune transformed itself into an industrial enterprise based on the production of silverware. Rather than drawing a sharp boundary between spiritual concerns and worldly matters, Wonderley argues that commune and company together comprise a century-long narrative of economic success, innovative thinking, and abiding concern for the welfare of others. Oneida Utopia seamlessly combines the evidence of social life and intellectual endeavor with the testimony of built environment and material culture. Wonderley shares with readers his intimate knowledge of evidence from the Oneida Community: maps and photographs, quilts and furniture, domestic objects and industrial products, and the biggest artifact of all, their communal home. Wonderley also takes a novel approach to the thought of the commune's founder, examining individually and in context Noyes's reactions to interests and passions of the day, including revivalism, millennialism, utopianism, and spiritualism.

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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 décembre 2017

EAN13

9781501709807

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

ONEIDA UTOPIA

ONEIDAUTOPIA

A COMMUNI TY SE ARCHI NG F OR HUMAN HAPPI NESS AND PROSPE RI TY

y Wonder Anthon ley

CORNELLUNIVERSITYPRESSIthaca and London

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

First published 2017 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Wonderley, Anthony Wayne, 1949– author. Title: Oneida utopia : a community searching for human happiness and prosperity / Anthony Wonderley. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017025823 (print) | LCCN 2017027517 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501709807 (pdf ) | ISBN 9781501712449 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501702709 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Oneida Community—History. | Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811–1886. | Collective settlements— New York (State)—History—19th century. | Utopian socialism—New York (State)—History—19th century. Classification: LCC HX656.O5 (ebook) | LCC HX656.O5 W59 2017 (print) | DDC 307.7709747/64—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017025823

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Figure1isfromtheauthor’scollection.Allotherimagesare from the Oneida Community Mansion House, used by permission.

Cover illustration: Bible communists of Oneida gather for a bee to hoe and rake, 1867. Photo courtesy of the Oneida Community Mansion House.

ToPatriciaA.Hoffman

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List of Illustrationsix Acknowledgmentsxi

Introduction:AGoodStoryToldTruly

1. Perfectionism

2. Putney

3. Oneida Birthed and Left Behind

4. Creating a Community

5. Gender and Sex

6. Buildings, Landscapes, and Traps 7. Industrialization 8. Breakup 9. A Silverware Company10. Welfare Capitalism

Conclusion:LookingBackward

Notes221 Bibliography255 Index265

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Illustrations

1. “Uncle Johnny’s Woman Farm,” 1959 2. Oil-on-canvas portrait of John Humphrey Noyes, 1862 3.Vue générale d’un phalanstère, lithograph, early 1840s 4. Early Mansion House complex, about 1851 5. Oneida Community, 1863 6. Bible communists gather for bee to hoe and rake, 1867 7. Bee to make traveling bags, 1865 8. Architectural drawings of 1862 Mansion House 9. Main Community buildings, 186510. North lawn of Mansion House, 186511. Newhouse traps depicted inThe Trapper’s Guide, 186512. “The Silk Factory,” fromLeslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 187013. Bible communists in front of Mansion House, 187114. Oneida Community library, woodcut published inLeslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 187015. Woman skeining silk in her Mansion House room, about 188516. Theodore Noyes in a “spirit photograph,” about 187517. Oneida Community Ltd. buildings at Niagara Falls, about 190518. Oneida-Kenwood Women’s Suffrage Group, 191719. Board of Directors of Oneida Community Ltd., 190720. Magazine ad for Oneida Community Ltd. silver-plated ware, 190321. Coles Phillips’s first magazine ad for Community Silver, 191122. Aerial view of administrative building and Mansion House, about 194023. Magazine ad for Oneida Ltd. silver-plated ware by Jon Whitcomb, 194424. Company’s centennial event in Noyes Park, 1948

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