Nineteen eighty-four / editor, Thomas Horan, the Citadel, South Carolina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horan, Thomas, 1974- editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical Insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Orwell, George.

Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George).

Dystopias in literature.

Totalitarianism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 253 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of George Orwell's novel, "Nineteen Eighty-Four". A chronology of Orwell's life, a complete list of Orwell's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.

Contents:

On Nineteen Eighty-Four / Thomas Horan

Biography of George Orwell / Thomas Horan

Orwell and Extremist Politics in Britain, 1930-49 / Bradley W. Hart

Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Concept of a Critical Dystopia / Tony Burns

State and Corporate Dystopianism in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Dave Eggers's The Circle / Regina Martin

Orwell's "Notes on Nationalism" and Nineteen Eighty-Four / Gregory Claeys

Winston as "Sentimental Archaism": Nostalgia in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four / Jill Belli

Not Death, but Annihilation: Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Catastrophe of Englishness / Erik Jaccard

From "The Splitting-Up of the World into Three Great Superstates" to "A Bare, Hungry, Dilapidated Place": 1949 in Nineteen Eighty-Four / Rafeeq O. McGiveron

"We are Different from All the Oligarchies of the Past": Orwell's Critique of Power and the Primal Family in Nineteen Eighty-Four / Clifford T. Manlove

Beyond the Love of Big Brother: Paranoid Reading, Non-Fascist Ethics, and Nineteen Eighty-Four / Sean A. Witters

Nineteen Eighty-Four Today: The Impossible Desire to Archive as the Secret Core of Ideology / Dario Altobelli

Writing Against Dystopia / Charles Tedder

Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1984 / Jackson Ayres

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Surveillance, and After: From Telescreens to the NSA / Andrew Byers

Privacy and Control in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four / Donald Morris

Chronology of George Orwell's Life

Major Works by George Orwell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Gale Virtual Reference Library, viewed June 22, 2019).

ISBN:

9781682171196

1682171191

OCLC:

963933877