The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 February 2025
- ISBN 9780198860693
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages848 pages
- Size 252x177x46 mm
- Weight 1786 g
- Language English 706
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Short description:
This book offers a comprehensive view of Orwell's thought and writing via forty-eight chapters written by an international team of Orwell specialists. It addresses familiar topics--such as Orwell's journalism--and also includes innovative considerations of feminism, Afrofuturism, and queer speculative fiction.
MoreLong description:
The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between his novels, essays, diaries, columns, letters, and reviews. Accessible to general readers and to established scholars alike, forty-eight chapters written by an international team of Orwell specialists address familiar topics-such as Orwell's journalism, broadcasting, literary criticism, and politics-as well as less well-trodden areas of his output, such as his accounts of stupidity, kindness, and justice, and his connections with contemporaries like Jack Common, Katharine Burdekin, Wyndham Lewis, and Victor Serge. Sections on Orwell's professional activities, his main literary influences, his politics, his intellectual fixations, his literary contemporaries, and his legacies structure the book, which moves thematically and topically through the full scope of his output. The first section looks at how Orwell spent his time as a writer, reader, and broadcaster. Chapters on writers from Shakespeare to the modernists investigate the determinants of Orwell's literary practice. The book then turns to a set of political contexts in which Orwell's writing can be understood. The 'Fixations' section covers the familiar, such as Orwell's account of Englishness, and the unfamiliar, such as his account of the absurd. The fifth section relates Orwell to several politically minded contemporaries, tracing connections and differences between their writing. The final section of the Handbook reflects on how Orwell sounds through several literary and socio-political legacies, and includes innovative considerations of feminism, Afrofuturism, and queer speculative fiction.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Contributors
Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Activities
Orwell the Reader
Orwell the Humorist
Orwell the Stylist
Orwell the Innovator
Orwell the Essayist
Orwell the Journalist
Orwell the Literary Critic
Orwell the Broadcaster
Part II: Influences
Orwell and William Shakespeare
Orwell and John Milton
Orwell and Charles Dickens
Orwell and Jonathan Swift
Orwell and George Gissing
Orwell, Joseph Conrad, and Rudyard Kipling
Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, and H. G. Wells
Orwell and Modernism
Part III: Politics
Orwell, Anarchism, and Revolution
Orwell and Trotskyism
Orwell, Consumption, and Destitution
Orwell and Socialism
Orwell, Progress, and the Intellectuals
Orwell and the Politics of Culture
Orwell, Race, and Empire
Orwell and Justice
Part IV: Fixations
Orwell and the Body
Orwell, War, and Violence
Orwell and Machines
Orwell and the Absurd
Orwell and Stupidity
Orwell's Beasts
Orwell and Childhood
Orwell's Jewish Problem
Orwell and Kindness
Orwell and Sexuality
Orwell, Englishness, and Class
Part V: Contemporaries
Orwell and Jack Common
Orwell and Katharine Burdekin
Orwell and Wyndham Lewis
Orwell and Henry Miller
Orwell and Bertrand Russell
Orwell and Victor Serge
Orwell and the 'Auden Generation'
Orwell, Una Marson, and Mulk Raj Anand
Part VI: Legacies
Orwell's Words
Orwell and Feminism
Orwell, Afrofuturism, and Queer Speculative Fiction
Orwell and Margaret Atwood
Orwell and Social Media
