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'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies / / edited by Jonathan Greenberg, Nathan Waddell



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Titolo: 'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies / / edited by Jonathan Greenberg, Nathan Waddell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXIII, 254 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
Disciplina: 809.04
Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern—20th century
Comparative literature
Literature, Modern—21st century
Twentieth-Century Literature
Comparative Literature
Contemporary Literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Persona (resp. second.): GreenbergJonathan
WaddellNathan
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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’.
Sommario/riassunto: 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. .
Titolo autorizzato: Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-44541-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910255252603321
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