Now More Than Ever (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series) - Hardcover

Huxley, Aldous

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0292731221 ISBN 13: 9780292731226

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2000

Synopsis

Over the course of his long career, British writer Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) shifted away from elitist social satires and an uncompromising irreligion toward greater concern for the masses and the use of religious terms and imagery. This change in Huxley's thinking underpins the previously unpublished play "Now More Than Ever". Written in 1932-1933 just after Brave New World, "Now More Than Ever" is a response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time.Huxley's protagonist is an idealistic financier whose grandiose scheme for industrial renewal drives him to swindling and finally to suicide. His fate allows Huxley to expose the evils he perceives in free-market capitalism while pleading the case for national economic planning and the rationalisation of Britain's industrial base. This volume contains the full text of "Now More Than Ever", a play hitherto believed to be lost. A "thinker's play," it is the last of Huxley's major writings to be published and immensely important to understanding his development as a writer. The editors of this volume have annotated the play for contemporary readers. Their introduction sets the play in the context of Huxley's intellectual life. David Bradshaw is Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. James Sexton is a Lecturer in English at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia.

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David Bradshaw is Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292731221
• ISBN 13: 9780292731226
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Bradshaw David, Sexton James