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'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Greenberg, Jonathan; Waddell, Dr. Nathan. Num Pages: 277 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBH; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
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, ... Read moreislands, 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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Palgrave Macmillan
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Basingstoke, United Kingdom
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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 Contributors David Bradshaw, ... Read moreUniversity of Oxford, UK Laura Frost, The New School, USA Andrzej Gąsiorek, 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 Show Less
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