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Huxley, Aldous, --- Satire, English --- History and criticism --- Criticism and interpretation --- -English satire --- English wit and humor --- Huxley, Aldous --- -Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- -History and criticism --- Huxley, Aldous Leonard, --- Khŭksli, Oldŭs, --- Хъксли, Олдъс, --- Khaksli, Oldos, --- Хаксли, Олдос, --- Хаксли, О. --- האקסליי, אלדוס, --- הקסלי, אלדוס, --- Huxley, Aldous Leonard --- Satire, English - History and criticism --- Huxley, Aldous, - 1894-1963 - Criticism and interpretation --- HUXLEY (ALDOUS), 1894-1963 --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- Huxley, Aldous, - 1894-1963

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For one hundred years, Heart of Darkness has been among the most widely read and taught novels in the English language. Hailed as an incisive indictment of European imperialism in Africa upon its publication in 1899, more recently it has been repeatedly denounced as racist and imperialist. Peter Firchow counters these claims, and his carefully argued response allows the charges of Conrad's alleged bias to be evaluated as objectively as possible. He begins by contrasting the meanings of race, racism, and imperialism in Conrad's day to those of our own time. Firchow then argues that Heart of D

Race in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- English literature --- Political fiction, English --- African influences. --- History and criticism. --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Africa --- In literature. --- Imperialism in literature --- Race in literature --- Racism in literature --- 820 "19" CONRAD, JOSEPH --- 820 "19" CONRAD, JOSEPH Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--CONRAD, JOSEPH --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--CONRAD, JOSEPH --- African influences --- History and criticism

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Criticism on utopian subjects has generally neglected the literary or fictional dimension of utopia. The reason for such neglect may be that earlier utopian fictions tended to be written by what one would nowadays call social scientists, e.g., Plato or Sir Thomas More. That is also why earlier discussions of utopian fiction were usually written by critics trained in the social sciences rather than by critics trained in literature. To an appreciable degree this still tends to be the case today. This book aims to put the fiction back into utopian fictions. While tracing the development of fiction in the writing of modern utopias, especially in Britain, it seeks to demonstrate in specific ways how those utopias have become increasingly literary - possibly as a reaction not only against the "social scientification" of modern utopias but also in reaction against the modern attempt to institute "utopia" in reality, notably in the former Soviet Union but also in consumerist, late-twentieth-century America. After an introductory discussion of how we understand - and how we should understand - modern utopian fictions, the book provides several examples of how those understandings affect our appreciation of utopian fiction. There are chapters on H.G. Wells's Time Machine; Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara; Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; William Golding's Lord of the Flies; and Iris Murdoch's The Bell.

Utopies --- Dystopies --- Littérature anglaise --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique

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