Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations Series)

by Harold Bloom (Editor)

Overview

Aldous Huxley's most influential novel, Brave New World depicts the inner workings of a dystopian society. Many critics credit the bold scope of the author's vision with popularizing an interest in scientific study that extends to this day. Harold Bloom suggests in his introduction that, while the work bears the influence of the era in which it was produced, in an age of genetic engineering and virtual reality, the novel is yet more relevant than ever.

Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, a series of more than 100 volumes, presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and The Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don DeLillo's White Noise. Each volume opens with an introductory essay and editor's note by Harold Bloom and includes a bibliography, a chronology of the writer's life and works, and notes on the contributors. Taken together, Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations provides a comprehensive critical guide to the most vital and influential works of the Western literary tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604135794
Publisher:	Facts on File, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Series:	Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations Series
Edition description:	New
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

One of our most popular, respected, and controversial literary critics, Yale University professor Harold Bloom's books -- about, variously, Shakespeare, the Bible, and the classic literature -- are as erudite as they are accessible.

Hometown:

New York, New York and New Haven, Connecticut

Date of Birth:

July 11, 1930

Date of Death:

October 14, 2019

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., Cornell University, 1951; Ph.D., Yale University, 1955

Table of Contents

Editor's Note vii

Introduction Harold Bloom 1

Brave New World Philip Thody 3

From Savages to Men Like Gods Peter Edgerly Firchow 17

Sweet Scents and Stench: Traces of Post/Modernism in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Hans J. Rindisbacher 37

Power of Images/Images of Power in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four Mario Varricchio 53

Oedipus in Dystopia: Freud and Lawrence in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Brad Buchanan 73

Aldous Huxley's Americanization of the Brave New World Typescript Jerome Meckier 95

Huxley's Feelies: The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World Laura Frost 125

"When the Indian Was in Vogue": D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, and Ethnological Tourism in the Southwest Carey Snyder 153

Chronology 185

Contributors 187

Bibliography 189

Acknowledgments 193

Index 195