Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence and Clashing Discourses of Nature

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Abstract:This essay considers Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence in the light of late 1940s conservationism. The novel shares specific concerns with contemporary conservationist non-fiction, but embeds these within a fragmented, polyvocal novel. Doing so, it demonstrates how different schools of thought clash, each blind to underlying nature in some aspect.