George Orwell remains an iconic figure today - even though he died
in 1950. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a Big
Brother society in which the state intrudes into the most intimate
details of people's lives - and, not surprisingly, it became a
constant reference point after Edward Snowden's revelations. The
word "Orwellian" is constantly in the media - used either as a
pejorative adjective to evoke totalitarian terror or as a
complimentary adjective to mean "displaying outspoken intellectual
honesty". Interest in Orwell's life and writings - globally -
continues unabated. Beginning with a preface by Richard Blair,
Orwell's son, George Orwell Now! brings together thirteen chapters
by leading international scholars in four thematic sections: *
Peter Marks on Orwell and the history of surveillance studies;
Florian Zollmann on Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2014; Henk Vynckier on
Orwell's collecting project; and Adam Stock on 'Big Brother's
Literary Offspring' * Paul Anderson "In Defence of Bernard Crick";
Luke Seaber on the "London Section of Down and Out in Paris and
London"; John Newsinger on "Orwell's Socialism"; and Philip Bounds
on "Orwell and the Anti-Austerity Left in Britain" * Marina Remy on
the "Writing of Otherness in Burmese Days and Keep the Aspidistra
Flying"; Sreya Mallika Datta and Utsa Mukherjee on "Reassessing
Ambivalence in Orwell's Burma"; and Shu-chu Wei on Orwell's Animal
Farm alongside Chen Jo-his's Mayor Yin * Tim Crook on "Orwell and
the Radio Imagination"; and editor Richard Lance Keeble on "Orwell
and the War Reporter's Imagination" Peter Stansky, in an afterword,
argues that Orwell is now more relevant than ever before.
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