Brave new world : contexts and legacies / Jonathan Greenberg, Nathan Waddell, editors.
Greenberg, Jonathan, editor.; Waddell, Nathan, editor.
2016
PR6015.U9
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Title
Brave new world : contexts and legacies / Jonathan Greenberg, Nathan Waddell, editors.
ISBN
9781137445414 (electronic book)
1137445416 (electronic book)
1137445408
9781137445407
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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PR6015.U9
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.912
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Greenberg, Jonathan, editor.
Waddell, Nathan, editor.
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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'.

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