George Orwell Studies Vol.2 No.1

Special Section 1: Teaching Orwell, edited by Tim Crook

Papers

• George Orwell versus Vera Brittain: Obliteration Bombing and the Tolerance in Wartime of Dissent in Weekly Political Publications – by Tim Luckhurst and Lesley Phippen


• Big Brother is Coming to an iPad Near You: Teaching Orwell in Taiwan – by Henk Vynckier


• Orwell the Teacher: Such, Such Were the Joys – by Tim Crook

Articles

• Orwell’s Children: Fighting for Voice – by Jon Preston


• The Rhetoric of Doublethink – by Philip Palmer


• A Short History of Hate – by Sean Cubitt

Special Section 2: Orwell and Labour, edited by John Newsinger

• Orwell, the Labour Party and the Attlee Government – by John Newsinger


• Leaders and their Qualities: Orwell on Cripps, Bevan and Attlee – by Philip Bounds


• So What Kind of Democratic Socialist Was He? – by Paul Anderson

Plus

• The Orwell Conundrum in Coming Up for Air: A Call for Action or Passive Resistance? – by Oriol Quintana


• Death, Hegemony and Masks: Reimaging Theories of Resistance Through the Writings of George Orwell – by Harry Bark