Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index.
Contents:
'Words without reason': State power and the moral life in Brave New World / Andrzej Ga·siorek. Brave New World as a modern utopia / Patrick Parrinder-- Signs of the T: Aldous Huxley, high art, and American technocracy / Nathan Waddell -- 'That learning were such a filthy thing': Education, literacy and social control in Huxley's Brave New World / Claudia Rosenhan -- The pleasures of dystopia / Laura Frost -- Huxley and reproduction / Aaron Matz -- What Huxley got wrong / Jonathan Greenberg -- Brave New World and Vanity Fair: A 'draught that will make you [....] lighthearted and gay' / Carey Snyder -- The Brave New World of mothering / Kathryn Southworth -- Ethics in the late anthropocene / Keith Leslie Johnson -- 'My hypothetical islanders': The role of islands in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Island / Jerome Meckier -- 'Words without reason': State power and the moral life in Brave New World / Andrzej Ga·siorek.
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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