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Huxley, Aldous
Enkel des Biologen T. H. Huxley, Großneffe von Matthew Arnold ; Studium in Oxford, ab 1919 literarischer...
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Huxley, Aldous: Point Counter Point
In diesem 1928 erschienenen Roman wird mit den Mitteln der Satire, Ironie und Komik ein skeptisches Bild der englischen Gesellschaft der 1920er Jahre...
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Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Die negative Utopie (Dystopie oder Anti-Utopie) aus dem Jahr 1932, der fünfte Roman des Autors, gehört in eine Reihe von fortschrittspessimistischen...
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Toxic Masculinity, Pseudo-Intellectualism, and “Sexo-Religious Psychology” in Mortal Coils
This chapter focuses on Mortal Coils (1922), Huxley’s second and most accomplished book of short stories. It analyzes the following works: “The...
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Irony, Popular Art, and Progressive Education in Little Mexican
This chapter explores Little Mexican and Other Stories (1924), Huxley’s third book of short fiction. It analyzes the following stories: “Little...
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Uncollected Stories
This chapter focuses on Huxley’s uncollected short fiction, which appeared only in magazines during his lifetime and which James Sexton republished...
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Nonsense, the Other, and Applied Science in Two or Three Graces
This chapter explores Two or Three Graces (1926), Huxley’s fourth book of short fiction. It provides the analyses of the following stories:...
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Introduction
The first chapter aims to explain why Huxley’s short fiction has never been given full attention even though he published five collections during his...
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Tracing Huxley’s orientalism: the European ‘Oriental’ background and Jesting Pilate as intellectual travelogue
Aldous Huxley was deeply influenced in his formative years by the East, and this is key to understanding his later evolution as a writer. Towards an...
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Huxley, Aldous: Eyeless in Gaza
Der 1936 erschienene Roman schildert satirisch die Krise der modernen Gesellschaft und entwirft ein Panorama des intellektuellen Lebens unmittelbar...
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Micro- and Macro-Aggressions and Social Contracts
From ‘realpolitick’ to reading aloud sections of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World we trace a way through to the breaking of social contracts and...
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Conclusion
The conclusion shows that Huxley’s stories are much more than crude illustrations of his ideas, as it is usually presented in the literature on his...
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Religion, Seduction, and Spiritual Education in Brief Candles
This chapter focuses on Brief Candles (1930), Huxley’s last book of short fiction. It analyzes the following stories: “Chawdron,” “The Rest Cure,”...
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Initiation in Limbo
This chapter examines Limbo (1920), Huxley’s first collection of short fiction. It analyzes the following stories: “Happily Ever After,” “Eupompus...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces Jack Lindsay, writer, publisher and activist, whose work has been seen as forerunner to the development of British Cultural...
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William H. Gass and the (Un)popularity of Words as Music
Throughout his career as short prose writer, novelist, essayist, and professor of philosophy, William H. Gass (1924–2017) retained a consistent and...
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Dystopian Relativism
In trying to elaborate on the concept of moral deixis in Three Body, Liu Cixin emphasises the ethical relativism of the grand historical scheme....
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Ectogenesis on the NHS: Reproduction and Privatization in Twenty-first-Century British Science Fiction
This chapter argues that the portrayal of ectogenesis in recent British women’s speculative fiction—specifically in Baby X (2016) by Rebecca Ann...
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“Poe’s Poetics and Eliot’s Poetry: A Denial of Influence?”
The chapter takes as its starting point the issue of Poe’s problematic status in the canon of American literature and the generally mixed reception...
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My God, It’s Full of Starch! Arthur C. Clarke, Alternative Meat, and the Hunting Hypothesis
This chapter examines Arthur C. Clarke’s frequent promotion of vegetarianism and the development of synthetic meat in response to the pressing...