The Routledge Companion to George Orwell
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 5. November 2026
Book
Hardback
616 pages
978-1-032-54960-6 (ISBN)
Description
George Orwell (1903-1950) and 'Orwellian' have maintained an enduring and significant influence in the global mass media, countries' broader cultures and political debates. The Routledge Companion to George Orwell provides comprehensive coverage of Orwell's works, life, reception and legacy.
Bringing together the work of an international group of scholars, the 37 chapters are divided into five thematic sections. The first carries pioneering studies of his global reception and influence, with particular focus on China, Russia, Spain, Latin America and the US. Part two considers critical interventions in Orwell studies. Part three looks at Orwell's life and writings and the way they connect with other authors. The next part concentrates on Orwell's texts in innovative ways taking in a range of topics such as sexuality, illness, imperial myths, friendship, Orwell the voracious reader, Orwell the poet, and the ethically-driven investigative journalist. Throughout his career as a writer and journalist, Orwell was intrigued by the way in which political and language issues often overlapped, and this is the focus of the fifth and final part. It takes in a range of fascinating topics including common decency, objective truth, death and emotional truth. Tim Luckhurst's Afterword offers reflections on his own engagement with Orwell's writing, beginning in his school days and developing throughout his career in journalism.
Drawing on the latest research and theory, this authoritative collection is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Orwell studies, politics, creative writing, cultural studies, journalism, philosophy and reception studies.
Bringing together the work of an international group of scholars, the 37 chapters are divided into five thematic sections. The first carries pioneering studies of his global reception and influence, with particular focus on China, Russia, Spain, Latin America and the US. Part two considers critical interventions in Orwell studies. Part three looks at Orwell's life and writings and the way they connect with other authors. The next part concentrates on Orwell's texts in innovative ways taking in a range of topics such as sexuality, illness, imperial myths, friendship, Orwell the voracious reader, Orwell the poet, and the ethically-driven investigative journalist. Throughout his career as a writer and journalist, Orwell was intrigued by the way in which political and language issues often overlapped, and this is the focus of the fifth and final part. It takes in a range of fascinating topics including common decency, objective truth, death and emotional truth. Tim Luckhurst's Afterword offers reflections on his own engagement with Orwell's writing, beginning in his school days and developing throughout his career in journalism.
Drawing on the latest research and theory, this authoritative collection is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Orwell studies, politics, creative writing, cultural studies, journalism, philosophy and reception studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
46 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 2 s/w Zeichnungen, 48 s/w Abbildungen
2 Line drawings, black and white; 46 Halftones, black and white; 48 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-032-54960-6 (9781032549606)
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The Routledge Companion to George Orwell
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Persons
Richard Lance Keeble is Honorary Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has written and edited more than 50 books. He was Chair of The Orwell Society (2013-2020) and his latest books are Journalism Beyond Orwell (2020) and Orwell's Moustache (2021).
Tim Crook is Emeritus Professor of Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is a long-standing academic, author and journalist. He has written many academic articles about Orwell and is co-editor, with Richard Lance Keeble, of the Abramis George Orwell Studies journal.
Tim Crook is Emeritus Professor of Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is a long-standing academic, author and journalist. He has written many academic articles about Orwell and is co-editor, with Richard Lance Keeble, of the Abramis George Orwell Studies journal.
Content
List of Figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction Orwell: The Pleasures of the Prose - Richard Lance Keeble and Tim Crook; Part I: Orwell's Global Impact; 1. Orwell's Reception in China: Translation and Transformation - Henk Vynckier and Yi-Chun Liu; 2. Orwell's Reception in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia - Masha Karp; 3. Orwell's Reception in Spain: Censorship and Critical Response - Jesus Isaias Gomez Lopez; 4. Reading Orwell in Latin America: From Hating 'Big Brother' to Loving 'Gran Hermano' - Roberto Herrscher; 5. Lost in Translation: How the US Culturally Appropriated Nineteen Eighty-Four - David Ryan; Part II: Critical Interventions in Orwell Studies; 6. John Rodden's Contribution to Orwell Studies: An Assessment - Krystyna Wieszczek; 7. Orwell's 'Wars': Orwell and his Critics on the Left - John Newsinger; 8. The Triumph of Orwellspeak: The Language of Nineteen Eighty-Four in Politics and Journalism during the 1950s - Dorian Lynskey; 9. Newspeak: A Re-evaluation - Darcy Moore; 10. Eric Blair / George Orwell and World War One - Peter Stansky; 11. 'To Find Out True Facts and Store Them Up for the Use of Posterity': Early Orwell and Investigative Journalism - Luke Seaber; Part III: Orwell in Context; 12. Orwell and Somerset Maugham - Tim Crook; 13. With Friends Like These: Richard Rees, Tosco Fyvel and Anthony Powell - Ron Bateman; 14. Arturo Barea and George Orwell: Realism and the Thought Police - Ameya Tripathi; 15. Down and out among the Modernists: Orwell, Jean Rhys, D.H. Lawrence and homelessness - Laura Ryan; 16. Outside and Inside the Whale: Orwell and Modernism - Douglas Kerr; 17. Misanthropic Orwell: Mrs Vaughan Wilkes, H.G. Wells and Victor Gollancz - Tim Crook; Part IV: Orwell's Life and Writings: New Perspectives, New Evaluations; 18. 'By the Light of the Harvest Moon': Orwell, Animal Farm and Revolution - Christian Hogsbjerg; 19. Orwell's Embodied Sexuality - Weiliang Zhang; 20. Orwell the Memoirist: Being True to the Feelings of Childhood - Sue Joseph; 21. The Misconstrued Mistress: Gender and Power in Burmese Days - Carol Biederstadt; 22. The Bibliophile: Orwell's Voracious Reading and the Missing Female Novelists - Sarah Gibbs; 23. The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: Orwell's Trains of Thought - Richard Lance Keeble; 24. Writers 'Well Worth Stealing?': Plagiarism, the Creative Process and the Case of Orwell - John Rodden; 25. Orwell as Reviewer: Power and Politics in the Culture Industry - Megan Faragher; 26. Big Brother as Guy Debord's 'Spectacle' - Elizabeth Jones; 27. George Orwell and Poetry - Mark Rawlinson; 28. Orwell's 'Ire-land' - John Rossi and John Rodden; Part V: Politics and Language: Orwell's Search for Meaning; 29. Orwell Freedom and the Good Life - Glenn Burgess; 30. Orwell and Polemic - Peter Marks ;31. Orwell's Big Brothers: Hitler and Stalin - Martin Tyrrell; 32. Orwell and the Philosophy of Language - Mark Satta; 33. Orwell and Objective Truth - Peter Brian Barry; 34. Orwell and Death - Nathan Waddell; 35. 'It is Only Emotionally that You have Failed to Make Progress': Arithmetic, Love and Emotional Truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four - Luke Young; 36. Orwell and Common Decency - Oriol Quintana; 37. Orwell and Theory - Ben Clarke; Afterword How Orwell has Accompanied me Since Childhood - Tim Luckhurst; Appendix; Index