Aldous Huxley and Utopia

by Jerome Meckier

Within the cycle that runs from Erewhon to Island, British literary utopias compete with one another to form the most persuasive picture of what the future might, or should, be like. At issue for Butler, Wells, Zamiatin, Orwell and others is whether utopia, be it positive or negative, is essentially prediction or hypothesis. Huxley contributed to this debate at roughly fifteen-year intervals, his three utopias becoming its key texts. In addition,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3643915217
• ISBN13: 9783643915214
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Lit Verlag
• Length: 242 Pages