From Huxley to Eggers

Patricia McManus

From Huxley to Eggers

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Abstract

Fears of mass culture generating visions of rule not by fear, but by the narcotics of conformity and abolition of privacy, in the fiction of Huxley and Eggers—‘total sociability’ resistable only by figures of the doomed individual. The fading even of high culture as notional refuge in the passage beyond the Brave New World.

Original language	English
Journal	New Left Review
Volume	2
Issue number	105
Publication status	Published - 31 May 2017

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Patricia McManus
- P.Mcmanus@brighton.ac.uk
- School of Humanities - Senior Lecturer
- Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories
Person: Academic

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