''Brave New World'': Contexts and Legacies

Informationen zum Autor 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 Contributors David Bradshaw, University of Oxford, UK Laura Frost, The New School, USA Andrzej Gasiorek, University of Birmingham, UK Keith Leslie Johnson, Georgia Regents University, USA Aaron Matz, Scripps College, USA Jerome Meckier,(Emeritus) University of Kentucky, USA Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading, UK Claudia Rosenhan, University of Edinburgh, UK Carey Snyder, Ohio University, USA Kathryn Southworth, Independent Scholar Klappentext 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.  Zusammenfassung This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Inhaltsverzeichnis 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’. ...

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Waddell Greenberg
• Assisted by: Jonatha Greenberg (Editor), Jonathan Greenberg (Editor), Waddell (Editor), Waddell (Editor), Dr. Nathan Waddell (Editor), Nathan Waddell (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781137445407
• ISBN: 978-1-137-44540-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, art, Ethics, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, morality, Comparative Literature, Social control, Collection, Contemporary Literature, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature, Modern—21st century, comparative, American Technocracy, Wyndham Lewis, futureology, H.G Wells