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Anne Hampton Brewster: Nineteenth-Century News from Rome

By Etta Madden | November 21, 2018
Think of Anne Hampton Brewster as a precursor to NPR's Sylvia Poggioli. American, female, news correspondent in Rome,  writing stories followed by many in the US....

Food: a Utopian Studies Special Issue

By Etta Madden | September 29, 2016
Idealized food practices have changed, I explain in the introduction to a 2015 special issue (26.1) of the journal Utopian Studies. Since Eating in Eden: Food...

Savory Bites

By Etta Madden | September 29, 2016
"Savory Bites: Books on Eating in Early America," appeared in Early American Literature 50.2 (2015).  On the hot topic of food and literature, it considers...

Damanhur: An Italian Earth-Centered Community

By Etta Madden | September 20, 2016
"Damanhur: Sustaining Changes in an Intentional Community," is the first chapter in the book Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World. In it I probe...

Famous American Vegetarians

By Etta Madden | September 20, 2016
Vegetarianism is not a recent American trend, influenced by immigrant cultures and travel abroad. Waves of interest in meatless diets have surged and ebbed through...

Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Native Tales

By Etta Madden | September 9, 2016
“Science in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (1827)” zooms in on a novel about Puritan New England that contributed to Sedgwick’s position as a rival of...