'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies

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'.

Author: Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/17/2016
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781137445407

About the Author

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