'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large. The volume affirms Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore connections between Brave New World and the nature of utopia, the 1930s American Technocracy movement, education and social control, pleasure, reproduction, futurology, inter-war periodical networks, motherhood, ethics and the Anthropocene, islands, and the moral life. The volume also includes a ‘Foreword’ written by David Bradshaw, one of the world’s top Huxley scholars. Timely and consistently illuminating, this collection is essential reading for students, critics, and Huxley enthusiasts alike.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-10-17
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:502 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:254
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137445407

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Dr Jonathan Greenberg is Associate Professor in the English Department at Montclair State University, USA. He is the author of Modernism, Satire, and the Novel (2011).Dr Nathan Waddell is Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Modernist Nowheres (2012). List of ContributorsDavid Bradshaw, University of Oxford, UKLaura Frost, The New School, USAAndrzej Gąsiorek, University of Birmingham, UKKeith Leslie Johnson, Georgia Regents University, USAAaron Matz, Scripps College, USAJerome Meckier,(Emeritus) University of Kentucky, USAPatrick Parrinder, University of Reading, UKClaudia Rosenhan, University of Edinburgh, UKCarey Snyder, Ohio University, USAKathryn Southworth, Independent Scholar

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- 1. Brave New World as a Modern Utopia.- 2. Signs of the T.- 3. ‘That Learning Were Such a Filthy Thing'.- 4. The Pleasures of Dystopia.- 5. Huxley and Reproduction.- 6. What Huxley Got Wrong.- 7. Brave New World and Vanity Fair; Carey Snyder.- 8. The Brave New World of Mothering.- 9. Ethics in the Late Anthropocene.- 10. ‘My Hypothetical Islanders’.- 11. ‘Words Without Reason’.