The Routledge Companion to George Orwell

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
Jesús Isaías Gómez López
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 Høgsbjerg
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

Biography

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.