@article{Marshall2019,
       author = "Marshall, Richard",
       title =  {{Why Historians Should Examine Shaker Novels and Short Stories}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/875d3791-6c6a-4a78-b783-dbaa8b58821d}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2019,
       month = jul,
       volumen = {13},
       number = {3-4},
       pages = {148--187},
}

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Date

July 2019

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2022-10-01

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Visitors to the villages often broadcast cautionary tales in late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century publications, tales that are remarkably similar to those of many authors of novels and short stories that appeared concurrently. Unfortunately, similar stories whose authors purport them to be historical novels continued to be disseminated in the twentieth century and indeed into the twenty-first century, well after most Shaker villages had closed. Thus a remarkably unvarying voice of anti-Shakerism has been kept alive for over two hundred years, a voice that threatens to obscure the legacy of the Shaker success in communal living.

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Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

13

Issue

3-4

First Page

148

Last Page

187

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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