![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The chapter attempts a reading of the text in the light of recent critical posthumanist theory alongside an overview of critical approaches to the novel, focusing mainly on the framework of feminist and dystopian readings. This chapter reads Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) in the literary context of early twentieth-century dystopias, arguing that the novel’s criticism of its cultural context focused on the predominantly American technocratic consumer culture Huxley perceived to be on the rise at the time and the possible consequences for humanity, which might result in nothing less than a complete de-humanization and the mass-production of (post-)human beings. ![]()
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