Spring 2021: Books of Interest

A.E. Housman: Finding A Path To Flourish, by Peter Waine

Housman was one of Orwell’s major influences in his youth, as discussed in “Inside The Whale” where Orwell wrote “In 1920, when I was about seventeen, I probably knew the whole of A Shropshire Lad by heart.”

(Published by Black Spring Press, ISBN13: Unknown by us)

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Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai

Appreciative reviews in London Review of Books, and LSE Blogs.

(Published by Harvard University Press, ISBN13: 9780674984547)

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Twenty Years On: Views and Reviews of Modern Britain, by Peter Stansky

A collection of essays. Those specifically on Orwell are:

• Writing about Orwell
• Orwell and Truth
• A Biographical Note with Particular Reference to Animal Farm
• The Biographical Roots of Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Orwell Today

(Published by Pinehill Humanities Press, ISBN13: 9780578700960. Only available in paperback)

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Selected Writings on Marxism, by Stuart Hall, Edited by Gregor McLennan

We regret the passing of our member David Harding, who especially valued the work of Stuart Hall.

(Published by Duke University Press, ISBN13: 9781478000273. Also available in paperback)

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Operation Valhalla: Writings on War, Weapons, and Media, by Friedrich Kittler

‘“We will not sheathe the sword,” sounds a lot more gentlemanly than “We will keep on dropping block-busters,” though in effect it means the same.’ (Orwell, 1944)

(Published by Duke University Press, ISBN13: 9781478010715. Also available in paperback)

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Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel, illustrated by Fido Nesti

(Published by Penguin Books, ISBN13: 9780241436493. Published in other languages outside the UK)

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