The Unexamined Orwell

by John Rodden

Book Overview

The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's work pervades the cultural imagination, while others of his literary generation are long forgotten. Exploring this astonishing afterlife has become the scholarly vocation of John Rodden,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292743882
• ISBN13: 9780292743885
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"