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

Other author Waddell, Nathan editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Descriptionxv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950--Criticism and interpretation.
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four--Influence.
English literature--20th century. --History and criticism.

SeriesCambridge companions
Cambridge companions. ^A710099
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.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Cambridge companion to Nineteen eighty-four Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108887090
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
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