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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies
Editors: Jonathan Greenberg, Nathan Waddell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44541-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44540-7Published: 17 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68558-5Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44541-4Published: 07 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 254
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature