The Cambridge companion to Nineteen eighty-four / edited by Nathan Waddell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waddell, Nathan, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four.

Orwell, George.

Orwell, George, 1903-1950--Criticism and interpretation.

Orwell, George, 1903-1950.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters. Chapters on a selection of the novel's interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is inseparable, the urgent questions it raises, and the impact it has had on other kinds of media, ranging from radio to video games, open up the conversation in an expansive way. Established concerns (e.g. Orwell's attitude to the working class, his anxieties about the socio-political compartmentalization of the post-war world) are presented alongside newer ones (e.g. his views on evil, and the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on comics). Individual essays help us see in new ways how Orwell's most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

Contents:

Introduction: Orwell's book / Nathan Waddell

Teaching and learning in and beyond Nineteen eighty-four / Natasha Periyan

The virtual geographies of Nineteen eighty-four / Douglas Kerr

The politics of the archive in Nineteen eighty-four / Diletta De Cristofaro

Orwell and humanism / David Dwan

Nineteen eighty-fourand the tradition of satire / Jonathan Greenberg

Orwell's literary context / Lisa Mullen

Wells, Orwell, and the dictator / Sarah Cole

Orwell's literary inheritors, 1950 to 2000 and beyond / Hollie D. Johnson

Europe, refugees, and Nineteen eighty-four / Janice Ho

The problem of hope : Orwell's workers / Elinor Taylor

Oceania's dirt : filth, nausea, and disgust in Airstrip One / Nathan Waddell

Room 101 : Orwell and the question of evil / Peter Brian Barry

Nineteen eighty-four on radio, stage, and screen / Daniel Buckingham

Making nineteen eighty Nineteen eighty-four musical : pop, rock, and opera / Jamie Wood

Nineteen eighty-four and comics / Isabelle Licari-Guillaume

'In this game that we're playing' : Nineteen eighty-four and video games / Soraya Murray

Coda: The imaginaries of Nineteen eighty-four / Adam Roberts.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781108887090

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