What not : a prophetic comedy / Rose Macaulay, Matthew De Abaitua.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macaulay, Rose, 1881-1958, author.

Contributor:

De Abaitua, Matthew, 1971- writer of introduction.

Series:

MIT Press / Radium Age

The Radium age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century.

English fiction.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Summary:

"A government ministry decides to increase national brain-power, and stave off the coming idiocracy, through a program of compulsory selective breeding. The propaganda efforts in support of this endeavor are amazing. The book ends on an ambiguous note: Is the victory of "human perverseness, human stupidity, human self-will" over autocratic bureaucracy a triumph? Or not? Macaulay - a beloved British writer best known for The Towers of Trebizond - worked in the British Propaganda Dept. during WWI. When British censors discovered that What Not ridiculed wartime bureaucracy, its 1918 publication was stopped. An influence on Huxley's "Brave New World.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Series Foreword

Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions

Bibliography

Note

Apology

I The Ministry

1

2

3

4

5

6

II Little Chantreys

III Brains Sunday

IV Our Week

V The Explanation Campaign

VI The Simple Human Emotions

7

8

VII The Breaking Point

VIII On Fixed Hearts and Changing Scenes

IX The Common Herd

X A Ministry at Bay

XI The Storming of the Hotel

XII Debris

5.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-37116-2

0-262-37115-4

OCLC:

1338835548