Jonathan Greenberg’s New Book on Brave New World

Jonathan Greenberg, professor in the Department of English, has published a new book titled Brave New World: Contexts and Legacies.

This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which is looms large. The volume examines Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore connections between Brave New World and the nature of utopia, the 1930s American Technocracy movement, education and social control, pleasure, reproduction, futurology, inter-war periodicals, motherhood, ethics and the Anthropocene, islands, and the moral life.

Greenberg is the author of Modernism, Satire, and the Novel published by Cambridge University Press (2011). His next book project is titled The Cambridge Introduction to Satire.