| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Costerus,
0165-9618 ;
new series 200
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 200.
0165-9618
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Around the word in 264 days -- Traversing the Raj -- The dangers of Ford and Freud -- Three days in Joy City -- Encountering the Hopi and the Zuni -- Naming but not libeling. |
| Summary |
"Wandering into Brave New World explores the historical contexts and contemporary sources of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel which, seventy years after its initial publication remains the best known and most discussed dystopian work of the twentieth century. This new study addresses a number of questions which still remain open. Did his round-the-world trip in 1925-1926 provide material for the novel? Did India's caste system contribute to the novel's human levels? Is there an overarching pattern to the names of the novel/s characters? Has the role of Hollywood in the novel been underestimated? Is Lenina Crown a representative 1920s "flapper"? Did Huxley have knowledge of and sources for his Indian reservation characters and scenes quite independent of and more accurate than those of D.H. Lawrence's writings? Did Huxley's visit to Borneo contribute anything to the novel? New research allows substantive answers and even explains why Huxley linked such figures as Henry Ford and Sigmund Freud. It also shows how the novel overcomes its intense grounding in 1920s political turmoil to escape into the timelessness of dystopian fiction."--Publisher website. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963. Brave new world.
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Brave new world (Huxley, Aldous) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Higdon, David Leon, 1939- Wandering into Brave new world 9789042037168 (OCoLC)858811903 |
| ISBN |
9789401209724 (electronic book) |
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9401209723 (electronic book) |
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1306167515 (electronic book) |
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9781306167512 (electronic book) |
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9789042037168 |
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9042037164 |
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