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Golding and Huxley: The Fables of Demonic Possession
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 311–327.
Published: 01 September 2000
...James R. Baker Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Golding and Huxley: The Fables of
Demonic Possession
Jam es R. Baker
urely we have heard enough about William Golding’s Lord of the Flies.
Published in 1954, it rapidly gained popularity in England...
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Stupidity, Intellect, and Hierarchy in Lawrence and Huxley
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 455–482.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Adam Parkes Pairing D. H. Lawrence with Aldous Huxley, this essay explores representations of aristocracy—hereditary and intellectual—in British modernism. Lawrence and Huxley often associate aristocracy with stupidity, satirizing the expertise of the expert as well as the intellectual vacancy...
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Aldous Huxley’s Americanization of the Brave New World Typescript
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 427–460.
Published: 01 December 2002
...Jerome Meckier Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Aldous Huxley’s Americanization
o f the Brave New World Typescript
Jerome Meckier
hen Aldous Huxley revised the Brave New World typescript1 be
tween 27 May and 24 August 1931, he strove to Americanize his dysto
pia. His...
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Huxley’s Feelies: The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 443–473.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Laura Frost Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Huxley’s Feelies:
The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World
Laura Frost
“JL T have just been, for the first time, to see and hear a picture talk,”
Aldous Huxley writes in a 1929 essay called “Silence Is Golden...
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Darwin’s Bulldog and Huxley’s Ape
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 572–596.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Keith Leslie Johnson Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Keith Leslie Johnson
Darwin’s Bulldog and Huxley’s Ape
Keith Leslie Johnson
One of the initial difficulties in assessing the impact of a figure like
Darwin on literary history is determining to what extent his...
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“Education of an Amphibian”: Anachrony, Neoteny, and Bildung in Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (4): 403–428.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Daniel Aureliano Newman This essay links anachrony in Aldous Huxley’s bildungsroman Eyeless in Gaza to the biological phenomenon of heterochrony (changes in the schedule and tempo of developmental processes, resulting in evolutionary novelty). Highlighting implicit correspondences between Bildung...
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Shakespeare’s Grave: The British Fiction of Hollywood
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Angeles.
Aldous Huxley does it too, in his Hollywood novel After Many a Summer
Dies the Swan (1939). On first arriving in L.A., his main character, the
British scholar Jeremy Pordage, is taken to a cemetery, the Beverly Pan
theon (based on Forest Lawn), where he encounters
The Tiny...
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Animal Subjects: Literature, Zoology, and British Modernism , by Caroline Hovanec
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the arts and sciences.” Henry James’s (1972 : 35) advice to would-be writers—“be one of the people on whom nothing is lost”—would thus apply as well to biologists. This attentiveness was obvious to Julian Huxley, biologist brother of Aldous, who extols the scientific value of observation in “Bird-Watching...
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Recovering Empire’s Critics
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 96–105.
Published: 01 March 2006
... East and
focuses on the work of Olivia Manning, Muriel Spark, and Ethel Man-
nin.The second chapter is concerned with India and features the work of
Rumer Godden.The third chapter handles the British imperial presence
in Kenya through the work of Elspeth Huxley, and the fourth chapter
treats...
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Mrs. Dalloway ’s Animals and the Humanist Laboratory
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., chained to a sinking ship (her favorite
reading as a girl was Huxley and Tyndall, and they were fond of these
nautical metaphors), as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do
our part; mitigate the sufferings of our fellow-prisoners (Huxley again);
decorate the dungeon with flowers...
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“The Ingenious Unravelling of Evidence”: Empathy, Extinction, and Wells’s The Croquet Player
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (3): 261–288.
Published: 01 September 2019
... man-apes, 6 and although in 1863 T. H. Huxley argued that Neanderthals were far more like humans than apes, it was Huxley who popularized the term “missing link” in 1864 ( Ruddick 2009 : 31). Despite Huxley’s claims, Ruddick observes that The dehumanization of the Neanderthal man had been...
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Editing Corpses in Evelyn Waugh’s Hollywood
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 414–440.
Published: 01 September 2013
...; there is Sir Thomas
Upton’s yacht; there is Jack Horner winning the Grand National. The
eye licks it all up instantaneously, and the brain, agreeably titillated, settles
down to watch things happening without bestirring itself to think” (33).
Aldous Huxley similarly complained in 1928 about what he...
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Modernist Life Histories: Biological Theory and the Experimental Bildungsroman by Daniel Aureliano Newman
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (1): 101–111.
Published: 01 March 2022
... development. Newman’s introduction provides excellent evidence of recapitulation theory’s momentum in which modernist studies has often seen the period’s cultural production swept up. Many of the quotations continue to be astounding: for instance, Aldous Huxley’s description in Point Counter Point (1928...
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Literary Bioethics: Animality, Disability, and the Human by Maren Tova Linett
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 105–112.
Published: 01 March 2023
... fields. Linett’s selection of novels for exploring these questions might also raise some questions; she moves from H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me...
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Monkey in the Mirror: The Science of Professor Higgins and Doctor Moreau
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 485–509.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of Harkness’s In Darkest London reflects, “Very rightly does Professor
Huxley say that it is better to be born a savage in some heathen land than
a slummer in Christian England” (196).
According to a cultural tradition that preceded Darwin, the move
from savage to beast was just one step down...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 423–444.
Published: 01 December 2009
... methodology, nor do
they subordinate the field of literary criticism to experimental psychology.
The works they analyze cover the chronological range of the twentieth
century (and then some) from fin-de-siècle essays by W. E. B. Du Bois
and T. H. Huxley to a novel of J. M. Coetzee published...
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Revisiting Evolution in 1890s Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (4): 634–639.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of the most valuable moments in the book occur when Glen-
dening traces the tensions between competing late-Victorian evolution-
ary theories in the novels. These include the writings of Charles Lyell,
Robert Chambers, T. H. Huxley, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. His study
of The Island of Doctor Moreau...
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Index: Twentieth-Century Literature Volumes 45–50, 2000–2004
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., Ted. See Loizeaux
Huxley, Aldous. See Baker; Meckier
Ibsen, Henrik. See Fuchs
Irigaray, Luce. See Dellamora
Ishiguro, Kazuo. See McCombe
Jacobs, Joshua. “Joyce’s Epiphanie Mode: Material Language and the Represen
tation of Sexuality in Stephen Hero and Portrait.” 46.1 (2000...
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Index: Twentieth Century Literature Volumes 41–45, 1995–1999
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (1): 115–124.
Published: 01 March 2000
.... Forster’s Howards End and Virginia Woolf’s
The Waves. ” 45.1 (1999): 46-64
Holmes, Catherine D. “Jim Burden’s Lost World: Exile in My Antonia. ” 45.3
(1999): 336-46
Hughes, Ted. See Bentley; Eddins
Huxley, Aldous. See Paulsell
Ishiguro, Kazuo. Seejanik
Jackson, Tony E...
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Modernism and Disciplinary History: On H. G. Wells and T. S. Eliot
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 283–316.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., a relatively uncomplicated one,
drawn primarily from his education under Thomas Henry Huxley at the South
Kensington Normal School of Science. In his Experiment in Autobiography'Wells
lauds both Darwin and Huxley for “put[ting] the fact of organic evolution
upon an impregnable base of proof...
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