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Brave new world, by Aldous Huxley / editor, M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Booker, M. Keith, editor.
Series:
Critical insights.
Critical insights
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Brave new world.
Huxley, Aldous.
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963--Criticism and interpretation.
Dystopias in literature.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 271 pages).
Place of Publication:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of Aldous Huxley's novel, "Brave New World". The essays in this volume examine the ways in which "Brave New World" continues to serve as an effective satirical commentary on our own reality, as well as the ways it continues to provide models for the numerous dystopian fictions that are being produced today.
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.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781619252394
1619252392
OCLC:
1003101036

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