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.
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This is an extraordinarily ambitious treasure trove of Orwellian scholarship. What a delight it is to delve into its 48 chapters: to pick and choose a topic as the whim takes one. * Richard Lance Keeble, George Orwell Studies *
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Nathan Waddell is a Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism(Oxford University Press, 2019) and edited Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughterfor the Oxford World's Classics series in 2021, along with The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Fourin 2020. He has published widely on Wyndham Lewis, John Buchan, and Ford Madox Ford, and sits on the editorial board of the journal George Orwell Studies.
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Nathan Waddell: Introduction
Part I: Activities
1: Helen Tyson: Orwell the Reader
2: Luke Seaber: Orwell the Humorist
3: Lisa Mullen: Orwell the Stylist
4: Patricia Rae: Orwell the Innovator
5: Peter Marks: Orwell the Essayist
6: Jaron Murphy: Orwell the Journalist
7: Natasha Periyan: Orwell the Literary Critic
8: Emily Bloom: Orwell the Broadcaster
Part II: Influences
9: Michael G. Brennan: Orwell and William Shakespeare
10: Elizabeth Cook and Nathan Waddell: Orwell and John Milton
11: Michael Hollington: Orwell and Charles Dickens
12: Adam Rounce: Orwell and Jonathan Swift
13: D. J. Taylor: Orwell and George Gissing
14: Robert Hampson: Orwell, Joseph Conrad, and Rudyard Kipling
15: Patrick Parrinder: Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, and H. G. Wells
16: Sascha Morrell: Orwell and Modernism
Part III: Politics
17: James Gifford: Orwell, Anarchism, and Revolution
18: David Goodway: Orwell and Trotskyism
19: Stephen Ingle: Orwell, Consumption, and Destitution
20: Alex Woloch: Orwell and Socialism
21: Ameya Tripathi: Orwell, Progress, and the Intellectuals
22: Matthew Taunton: Orwell and the Politics of Culture
23: Priya Satia: Orwell, Race, and Empire
24: Kristian Williams: Orwell and Justice
Part IV: Fixations
25: Peter Fifield: Orwell and the Body
26: Beryl Pong: Orwell, War, and Violence
27: Beci Carver: Orwell and Machines
28: Noreen Masud: Orwell and the Absurd
29: Jamie Wood: Orwell and Stupidity
30: Sarah Gibbs: Orwell's Beasts
31: Richard Lance Keeble: Orwell and Childhood
32: Erin Carlston: Orwell's Jewish Problem
33: Megan Faragher: Orwell and Kindness
34: Rachael Stanley: Orwell and Sexuality
35: Ben Clarke: Orwell, Englishness, and Class
Part V: Contemporaries
36: Ian Haywood: Orwell and Jack Common
37: Elizabeth English: Orwell and Katharine Burdekin
38: Alan Munton: Orwell and Wyndham Lewis
39: Jennifer Cowe: Orwell and Henry Miller
40: Peter Brian Barry: Orwell and Bertrand Russell
41: Anna Vaninskaya: Orwell and Victor Serge
42: Benjamin Kohlmann: Orwell and the 'Auden Generation'
43: Melissa Dinsman: Orwell, Una Marson, and Mulk Raj Anand
Part VI: Legacies
44: Karina Jakubowicz: Orwell's Words
45: Kristin Bluemel: Orwell and Feminism
46: Rachele Dini: Orwell, Afrofuturism, and Queer Speculative Fiction
47: Madeleine Davies: Orwell and Margaret Atwood
48: Elizabeth Losh: Orwell and Social Media
