Brave new world, by Aldous Huxley

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This volume of criticism presents a variety of new essays on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World , a classic in the science fiction and dystopian genres. These essays delve into the cultural, historical, comparative and critical contexts for understanding Brave New World . For readers who are studying it for the first time, several essays survey the critical conversation regarding this work from all standard critical perspectives - social, gender, po...

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9781619252387
1619252384

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xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm

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LSC $94.44

Contents:

About this volume ; On Brave new world ; Biography of Aldous Huxley / M. Keith Booker
Huxley's changing homeland : politics and the planned society in Britain, 1906-1931 / Richard Carr
Huxley meets the critics : commentaries on Brave new world / Gerardo Del Guercio
Reading Brave new world through the lens of feminism / Thomas Horan
Portraits, not prophesies : Huxley's and Orwell's dystopian visions / Jackson Ayres
Bolshevism and Brave new world / Gregory Claeys
Aldous Huxley and the twentieth-century eugenics movement / Bradley W. Hart
Maternity as a social construct in Brave new world / Nicole Fares
The burden of science and biology in Brave new world / Josephine A. McQuail
Penitentes at the snake dance : Native Americans in Brave new world / Katherine Toy Miller
Film adaptations of Brave new world / Alexander Charles Oliver Hall
Awakening from 'the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness' : globalization and marginality in Brave new world / Robert Wilson
"'Observe, ' said the director" : Brave new world, surveillance studies, and the dystopian tradition / Sean A. Witters
Postmodernism and the cultural logic of dystopian fiction : Brave new world and M.T. Anderson's Feed / M. Keith Booker

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1363606

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Booker, M. Keith
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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