Overview
- The first book to explore Aldous Huxley’s short fiction in its entirety
- Departs from most critical studies on Huxley by positioning his short fiction in a modernist context
- Explores the relationship between Huxley’s short fiction and his later and more famous novels and essays
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Aldous Huxley’s Short Fiction analyzes Huxley’s short stories within a modernist context, highlighting that he shared more characteristics with distinguished modernists than is usually believed. The book also explores other features of Huxley’s short stories, focusing on themes such as consumerism, mainstream education, shallow intellectualism, women’s emancipation, toxic masculinity, and sensational journalism, themes that correspond with both Huxley’s time and our world, and position him among the most prophetic authors of the twentieth century. This study demonstrates that Huxley’s short fiction can provide answers to questions that remain confusing or partially explained in the research on Huxley’s work. It illustrates the constants and changes in Huxley’s opinions on organized religion, mysticism, and the relation between sexuality and spirituality, while also clarifying Huxley’s political opinion, which is often misunderstood due to his advocacy of pacifism. Finally, the in-depth interpretations of Huxley’s short stories reveal the dynamics of his literary style, especially his complex humor and irony, areas he developed more than any other modernist author of short fiction.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andrija Matić is an adjunct assistant professor at Baruch College, The City University of New York, USA. He is the author of five novels, a collection of short stories, and a study on T. S. Eliot’s complete works. He has also published many articles on Anglo-American literature, especially on modernist poetry and short fiction. Andrija Matić has taught at universities in Serbia, Kuwait, Thailand, Turkey, and the USA. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aldous Huxley's Short Fiction
Authors: Andrija Matić
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55775-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55774-3Published: 14 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-55777-4Due: 15 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-55775-0Published: 13 April 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 187
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literature, general