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Anti-intellectualism, “Theory,” and the Reactionary Impulses of the Campus Novel
There is perhaps nothing more disturbing about the academic novel than its patent anti-academicism. This chapter reads this theme against the...
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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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Aldous Huxley's Short Fiction
Aldous Huxley’s Short Fictionanalyzes Huxley’s short stories within a modernist context, highlighting that he shared more characteristics with...
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Campus Fictions Exemption and the American Campus Novel
Campus Fictions argues that the academic novel balances utopian and regressive tendencies, reinforcing the crises we face in higher learning while...
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Introductions to the American Campus Novel
The introduction establishes “Exemption” as the fulcrum for the campus novel’s ambivalent politics. The chapter explores unique arguments regarding...
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Italian Travelogues on Maoist China (1950s–1970s) through the Lens of Mobilities Studies
This chapter employs a mobility-focused approach to examine the changes in Italian left-wing intellectuals’ collective response to the People’s...
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Unauthorized Sex?: Sex, Power, and Privilege in the Campus Novel
This chapter considers the sexed reputations of the university—both the notorious prevalence of sexual assaults against college-aged women, but also...
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Subordinations of Academic Freedom: “Speech” as Campus Keyword and Codeword
Taking as its point of departure the “free speech” demonstrations at major public universities in 2017 and 2018, this chapter studies the conflation...
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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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Campus Characters: Exemption and Utopia on Campus
This chapter begins with the mythology of the “big man on campus,” as well as the prevalence of eccentric characters in the academic novel. This...
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Health Inequity, Structural Racism, and the Trans-corporeal Ethics of Claudia Rankine’s Investigative Poetics
Claudia Rankine’s investigative poetry points to the many barriers for achieving both racial and health equity. Rankine confronts the racism inherent...
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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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On Teaching the University
This brief chapter discusses Jeffrey Williams’s “Teach the University” (2008) and the importance of translating the materials from the body chapters...
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Cultural Histories of the Intellectual: From Patriarchal Myth to Feminist Mythopoeia
This chapter situates this book in its historical and cultural context and introduces some key ideas from theory, firstly by considering the myth of...
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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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Hiding in Plain Sight: Feminism and Geopolitical Commentary in Fernán Caballero’s La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868)
La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868) by Cecilia Böhl de Faber is a cuadro de costumbres that has received little attention from scholars. Written...
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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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Digital Resources for African Languages Technologies: Challenges, Prospects and Strategies
This chapter addresses challenges, prospects and strategies for develo** and deploying digital resources for modern computing technology, to...
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