Aldous Huxley: A Study of the Major NovelsA&C Black, 13.01.2014 - 242 Seiten Essays analysing the decline of Aldous Huxley as a novelist have become a commonplace of literary criticism over the past two decades, yet he continues to be read and few writers equal his ability to make moral concepts exciting, to animate ideas and clothe them with life and vitality. In this study of the nine major novels, from Crome Yellow (1921) to Island (1962), Mr Bowering offers a positive evaluation Huxley's achievements as a novelist of ideas, as the moralist of a scientific age, and as an ironist worthy to be compared with Swift. He shows how the conflicting claims of morality and art must be judged in relation to Huxley's work as a whole and to this search for a way of life which would 'fit all the facts of experience'. All the principle novels require some knowledge of Huxley's source materials to be adequately understood and Mr Bowering is particularly informative on this score. His discussion indeed attempts to set the novels in the widest possible area of reference. |
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5 | |
II The Moral Dilemma | 19 |
III Crome Yellow 1921 | 33 |
IV Antic Hay 1923 | 46 |
V Those Barren Leaves 1925 | 61 |
VI Point Counter Point 1928 | 77 |
VII Brave New World 1932 | 98 |
VIII Eyeless in Gaza 1936 | 114 |
IX After Many a Summer 1939 | 141 |
X Time Must Have a Stop 1945 | 160 |
XI Island 1962 | 181 |
XII The Moralist and the Artist | 213 |
Conclusion | 234 |
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abstractions Aldous Huxley Aldwinkle Anthony Beavis Anthony's Antic Hay attitude aware Bardo Barnack Barren Leaves beauty become Bidlake body Brave New World Brian Calamy Calamy's Cardan chapter characters Chelifer Clear Light consciousness conversion critics Crome Yellow cynicism D. H. Lawrence death divine Ground dying Ends and Means Eustace Barnack Eustace's evil existence experience Eyeless in Gaza fact feel final Gerald Heard Gumbril Helen human Huxley's Huxley's novels ideal intellectual ironic irony Island kind knowledge later Lawrence literary living Lypiatt Maithuna man's meditation ment mescalin mind moral moralist mystical nature never novel of ideas novelist Pala Palanese passion Pelvey perennial philosophy Philip Quarles physical Point Counter Point political problem Propter Rampion reality realized religion satire scientific Scogan Sebastian sense sensual sexual Shearwater social society spiritual Staithes Stoyte Stoyte's symbol theme things tion truth utopian values vision Viveash Webley's Wimbush Worlders