'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies

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

• 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’.