{"id":832,"date":"2016-10-06T14:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishlitvictorianmodern\/?post_type=back-matter&p=832"},"modified":"2016-10-11T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:02:00","slug":"appendix-2-a-mini-casebook-on-brave-new-world","status":"publish","type":"back-matter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-englishlitvictorianmodern\/back-matter\/appendix-2-a-mini-casebook-on-brave-new-world\/","title":{"raw":"Appendix 2: A Mini-Casebook on Brave New World","rendered":"Appendix 2: A Mini-Casebook on Brave New World"},"content":{"raw":"

Overview of Brave New World<\/h1>\r\n1980 film version Brave New World<\/em>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ek5vse2_Aq0\r\n\r\n[A reasonably good adaptation of the novel, if rather long. The script was written by Robert E. Thompson, who received an Oscar nomination for his scenario of the film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?<\/em>]\r\n\r\nBBC RADIO 45 Minute documentary on BNW<\/em> http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00jn8bc<\/a>\r\n\r\n[An outstanding discussion of numerous aspects of the novel, with three world experts on 20th-century British literature.]\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p003k9fz<\/a>\r\n\r\n[Another podcast from BBC. This one is on modernist utopias]\r\n\r\nBrave New World<\/em> article Wikipedia http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brave_New_World<\/a>\r\n\r\n[An excellent overview of plot, character, and contexts]\r\n\r\nMargaret Atwood\u2019s essay on Brave New World<\/em> http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2007\/nov\/17\/classics.margaretatwood<\/a>\r\n

History Concentration<\/h2>\r\n\u201cBrave New World and the Rationalization of Industry\u201d. English Studies in Canada<\/em>. Discusses Huxley\u2019s satire on communism and capitalism in the novel. [Useful for research focusing on history and\/or business.PDF File.] http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2014\/06\/brave-new-world-and-the-rationalization-of-industry-3.pdf<\/a>\r\n\r\n\"Sight-seeing in Alien Englands\" Aldous Huxley (1931) [A companion essay to BNW<\/em>, in which Huxley describes his visits to Alfred Mond\u2019s chemical factory in the north of England, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), and to the Lucas Electrical Parts factory in Birmingham. http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?attachment_id=453<\/a>\r\n\r\nMy Life and Work: Henry Ford <\/em>http:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/webbin\/gutbook\/lookup?num=7213<\/em><\/a>\r\n\r\n\u201cDickens\u2019 Hard Times<\/em> as Dystopia\u201d http:\/\/www.victorianweb.org\/authors\/dickens\/hardtimes\/sexton1.html<\/a>\r\n\r\n[Discusses Charles Dickens\u2019s \"condition of England\" novel Hard Times<\/em> as source for BNW<\/em>.]\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.huxley.net\/miranda\/history.html<\/a>[Links to political figures important to BNW<\/em>.]\r\n\r\nThe Mind and Face of Bolshevism<\/em> Ren\u00e9 F\u00fclop-Miller. [Huxley reviewed this anti-communist book shortly before he wrote BNW<\/em>. It is an important source for the satire on communism.] https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mindandfaceofbol015704mbp<\/a>\r\n\r\n\u201cAldous Huxley\u2019s Bokanovsky\u201d http:\/\/www.depauw.edu\/sfs\/covers\/cov47.htm<\/a> (Science Fiction Studies<\/em>). [A short essay on the source of the name \"Bokanovsky.\"]\r\n\r\n\"'Brave New World,' The Feelies, and Elinor Glyn.\" [ELN<\/em> 35.2 Sept. 1997.] [Discusses the uses Huxley made of various sources such as Shakespeare\u2019s Othello<\/em> and Elinor Glyn\u2019s novel It<\/em>.] http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2014\/09\/RevdBrave-New-World-The-Feelies-and-Elinor-Glyn.pdf<\/a>\r\n\r\n\u201cAldous Huxley\u2019s Americanization of the Brave New World<\/em> Typescript.\u201d http:\/\/somaweb.org\/w\/sub\/Americanization.html<\/a> [Primarily a historical approach to the novel.]\r\n

Psychology Focus<\/h2>\r\n\u201cBrave New World Revisited Revisited: Huxley\u2019s Evolving View of Behaviorism.\u201d http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2733409\/pdf\/behavan00027-0062.pdf<\/a> [Valuable discussion of Huxley\u2019s changing attitude to behaviorism in BNW<\/em> and later works. Psychology]\r\n\r\n\u201cAldous Huxley\u2019s Brave New World as a Parody and Satire of Wells, Ford, Freud and Behaviourism\u201d\u00a0AHA 8<\/em> [A wide-ranging discussion of Huxley\u2019s satire on the ideas of key figures in psychology.] http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?attachment_id=456<\/a>\r\n

Biology Concentration<\/h2>\r\nCongdon, Brad \u201cCommunity, Identity, Stability\u201d: The Scientific Society and the Future of Religion in Aldous Huxley\u2019s Brave New World.\u201d\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/ejournals.library.ualberta.ca\/index.php\/ESC\/article\/view\/20085\/15530<\/a> [This paper is quite wide-ranging but will be particularly helpful for students wanting to concentrate their research on biological aspects of the novel.]\r\n\r\nJ. B. S. Haldane. Daedalus: or Science and the Future<\/em>. http:\/\/vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu\/~crshalizi\/Daedalus.html<\/a> [This paper by noted biologist Prof. Haldane, a friend of Huxley\u2019s, discusses concepts such as ectogenesis and others topics central to BNW.<\/em>]\r\n\r\nJulian Huxley. \u201cThe Tissue-Culture King.\u201d A science-fiction story by Huxley\u2019s brother, Sir Julian Huxley, written in 1927. It discusses scientific ideas also found in BNW<\/em>. http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/fiction\/tissue\/<\/a>\r\n

Anthropology Concentration<\/h2>\r\nFranklin, Benjamin. \u201cRemarks on the Savages of North America.\u201d\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/mith.umd.edu\/\/eada\/html\/display.php?docs=franklin_bagatelle3.xml<\/a>\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/nam\/zuni\/<\/a> [Huxley used some of the Smithsonian reports from Frank Cushing for background source material for BNW.]\r\n\r\nHough, Walter. Moki Snake Dance<\/em>. [N.B. \u201cMoki\u201d was an early synonym for \u201cHopi\u201d.] https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/mokisnake00houg<\/a>\r\n\r\nHuxley read this pamphlet in 1930 before writing Brave New World<\/em>. Despite his limited time visiting Aboriginal reservations in the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico, he was able to gain further background details for the \u201cSavage Reservation\u201d chapters in the novel by using this and other publications as source material. [The Cushing, Hough and the Higdon essays are particularly useful for students wishing to do research with emphasis on Anthropology.]\r\n\r\nDavid Leon Higdon Essay: Huxley's Hopi Sources http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2014\/06\/Hopi-Sources-with-fnsecond-version.pdf<\/a>\r\n\r\nPenitentes http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/11635c.htm<\/a>\r\n
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\r\n\r\n\"Brave New World and the Anthropologists: Primitivism in A.F. 632\" Jerome Meckier http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2014\/07\/latestmeckier-bnw-anthroroughdraft.pdf<\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Philosophy Concentration<\/h2>\r\n\u201cThe Utopian Tradition and Aldous Huxley\u201d SFS<\/em> http:\/\/www.depauw.edu\/sfs\/backissues\/6\/matter6art.htm<\/a> [As the title suggests, this essay discusses BNW<\/em> within a context of previous utopian works, including Plato\u2019s Republic<\/em>.]\r\n\r\nThe \u201cGrand Inquisitor Chapter\u201d from Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov<\/em> https:\/\/www.mtholyoke.edu\/acad\/intrel\/pol116\/grand.htm<\/a> [Useful for students wishing to focus on Chapters 16 and 17 in BNW<\/em>, particularly the philosphy of the Grand Inquisitor. Political Science\/Philosophy.]\r\n\r\nFremantle, Ann. Introduction to The Grand Inquisitor<\/em>. http:\/\/web.pdx.edu\/~tothm\/religion\/Summary%20of%20The%20Grand%20Inquisitor.pdf<\/a>\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~karamazov\/resources\/?page_id=391<\/a>\r\n\r\nLewicki, Greg. \u201cDostoevsky Extended: Aldous Huxley on the Grand Inquisitor, Specialisation and the Future of Science.\u201d\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/ebookbrowsee.net\/gdoc.php?id=181704028&url=c9916ddd0284a3df025e0ce4e036d271<\/a> [Culture and Politics, Tischner European Univesity Papers, Issue 2\/3, pp 210-33. Use this article together with Wikipedia \u201cGrand Inquisitor\u201d as starting point.]\r\n\r\nMiranda Web site http:\/\/www.huxley.net\/miranda\/home.html<\/a> [Contains numerous sources for Brave New World<\/em> in downloadable format.]\r\n\r\n\u201cUtopias, Positive and Negative. Aldous Huxley (1963).\u00a0[pdf] http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?attachment_id=455<\/a>\r\n\r\nUtopias Postitive and Negative Afterword [James Sexton]. [pdf] http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?attachment_id=454<\/a>","rendered":"

Overview of Brave New World<\/h1>\n

1980 film version Brave New World<\/em><\/p>\n