George Orwell Studies

Journal packed with Orwellian insights

A biannual journal, completely independent of The Orwell Society, packed with Orwellian insights. In the latest bumper issue, John Rodden argues in his keynote speech to the UCL conference on Orwell in May 2019, that he is the most important writer since Shakespeare.

Guest-edited by Sarah Gibbs, organiser of the conference titled ‘Rebel? Prophet? Relic? New Perspectives on Orwell’, the issue includes Dana Wight on Orwell and anarchism, Xiaozhou Li on computer games inspired by Nineteen Eighty-Four’s representation of surveillance in a Big Brother society and James Jarrett on some of the psychoanalytic themes in Michael Radford’s film, 1984.

In addition, Philip Bounds examines Orwell and the paranormal while Richard Lance Keeble writes on the ‘Julia conundrum’ in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Biographer Jeffrey Meyers takes a close look at various fascinating memoirs of Orwell to see what they reveal about the man and his writings. Norman Bissell writes about the making of his acclaimed novel about Orwell’s final years, Barnhill, and Darcy Moore, a confessed bibliomaniac, tells the story of when he purchased what appeared to be a first edition of Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece – both signed and at a knockdown price.

(A previous issue of George Orwell Studies)

George Orwell Studies, jointly edited by Richard Lance Keeble and Tim Crook, and completely independent of The Orwell Society, can be purchased from Abramis, its publishers.

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