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Author:   Waddell
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   1.786kg
ISBN:  

9780198860693

ISBN 10:   0198860692
Pages:   848
Publication Date:   13 February 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface Contributors Figures Abbreviations 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 Vaninskay: 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

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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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