The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-81471-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Reihe: Cambridge Companions to Literature

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waddell, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronology; Introduction: Orwell's book Nathan Waddell; Part I. Contexts: 1. Teaching and learning in and beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four Natasha Periyan; 2. The virtual geographies of Nineteen Eighty-Four Douglas Kerr; 3. The politics of the archive in Nineteen Eighty-Four Diletta De Cristofaro; 4. Orwell and humanism David Dwan; Part II. Histories: 5. Nineteen Eighty-Four and the tradition of satire Jonathan Greenberg; 6. Orwell's literary context Lisa Mullen; 7. Wells, Orwell, and the dictator Sarah Cole; 8. Orwell's literary inheritors, 1950 to 2000 and beyond Hollie D. Johnson; Part III. Questions: 9. Europe, refugees, and Nineteen Eighty-Four Janice Ho; 10. The problem of hope: Orwell's workers Elinor Taylor; 11. Oceania's dirt: filth, nausea, and disgust in Airstrip One Nathan Waddell; 12. Room 101: Orwell and the question of evil Peter Brian Barry; Part IV. Media: 13. Nineteen Eighty-Four on radio, stage, and screen Daniel Buckingham; 14. Making Nineteen Eighty-Four musical: pop, rock, and opera Jamie Wood; 15. Nineteen Eighty-Four and comics Isabelle Licari-Guillaume; 16. 'In this game that we're playing': Nineteen Eighty-Four and video games Soraya Murray; 17. Coda: the imaginaries of Nineteen Eighty-Four Adam Roberts; Further Reading.

Über Autor(innen)

Waddell, Nathan
Nathan Waddell is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism (2019), Modernist Nowheres: Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920 ( 2012), and Modern John Buchan: A Critical Introduction (2009). He has also co-edited volumes of essays on the work of Wyndham Lewis.