Orwell's ghosts : wisdom and warnings for the twenty-first century / Laura Beers.
| Author/creator | Beers, Laura, 1978- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | 240 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: What's Orwellian? -- From Eric Blair to George Orwell : the making of a writer -- The thought police : censorship, cancel culture, and "fake news" -- ISMS : populism and tyranny -- Inequality : accents and manners and the cut of clothes -- Patriarchy : the vote, equal pay, and reproductive rights -- Blueprint for revolution : making the case for democratic socialism -- Afterword : for freedom's sake -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Abstract | "In Orwell's Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell's full body of work--his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system--to examine what "Orwellian" truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell's writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of "fake news" and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-227) and index. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| ISBN | 9781324075080 |
| ISBN | 1324075082 (hardcover) |
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