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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151703203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ipswich, Massachusetts : , : Salem Press

Amenia, NY : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2016]

�2016

ISBN

1-68217-119-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 253 pages)

Collana

Critical Insights

Disciplina

823.912

Soggetti

Dystopias in literature

Totalitarianism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.