{"product_id":"george-orwell-now-preface-by-richard-blair-son-of-george-orwell-1","title":"George Orwell Now!","description":"George Orwell remains an iconic figure today – even though he died in 1950. His dystopian novel \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with a preface by Richard Blair, Orwell’s son, \u003ci\u003eGeorge Orwell Now!\u003c\/i\u003e brings together thirteen chapters by leading international scholars in four thematic sections:\u003cbr\u003e• Peter Marks on Orwell and the history of surveillance studies; Florian Zollmann on \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/i\u003e in 2014; Henk Vynckier on Orwell’s collecting project; and Adam Stock on ‘Big Brother’s Literary Offspring’\u003cbr\u003e• Paul Anderson «In Defence of Bernard Crick»; Luke Seaber on the «London Section of \u003ci\u003eDown and Out in Paris and London»\u003c\/i\u003e; John Newsinger on «Orwell’s Socialism»; and Philip Bounds on «Orwell and the Anti-Austerity Left in Britain»\u003cbr\u003e• Marina Remy on the «Writing of Otherness in \u003ci\u003eBurmese Days\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKeep the Aspidistra Flying\u003c\/i\u003e»; Sreya Mallika Datta and Utsa Mukherjee on «Reassessing Ambivalence in Orwell’s Burma»; and Shu-chu Wei on Orwell’s \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c\/i\u003e alongside Chen Jo-his’s \u003ci\u003eMayor Yin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Tim Crook on «Orwell and the Radio Imagination»; and editor Richard Lance Keeble on «Orwell and the War Reporter’s Imagination»\u003cbr\u003ePeter Stansky, in an afterword, argues that Orwell is now more relevant than ever before.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54186778427736,"sku":null,"price":136.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781433129834_f1dc4824-2cd3-49ae-8435-30d553c531f3.jpg?v=1764787529","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/george-orwell-now-preface-by-richard-blair-son-of-george-orwell-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}