The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nathan Waddell is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism (2019), Modernist Nowheres: Politics and Utopia in Early Modernist Writing, 1900-1920 ( 2012), and Modern John Buchan: A Critical Introduction (2009). He has also co-edited volumes of essays on the work of Wyndham Lewis.

• Chronology; Introduction: Orwell's book Nathan Waddell; Part I. Contexts: 1. Teaching and learning in and beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four Natasha Periyan; 2. The virtual geographies of Nineteen Eighty-Four Douglas Kerr; 3. The politics of the archive in Nineteen Eighty-Four Diletta De Cristofaro; 4. Orwell and humanism David Dwan; Part II. Histories: 5. Nineteen Eighty-Four and the tradition of satire Jonathan Greenberg; 6. Orwell's literary context Lisa Mullen; 7. Wells, Orwell, and the dictator Sarah Cole; 8. Orwell's literary inheritors, 1950 to 2000 and beyond Hollie D. Johnson; Part III. Questions: 9. Europe, refugees, and Nineteen Eighty-Four Janice Ho; 10. The problem of hope: Orwell's workers Elinor Taylor; 11. Oceania's dirt: filth, nausea, and disgust in Airstrip One Nathan Waddell; 12. Room 101: Orwell and the question of evil Peter Brian Barry; Part IV. Media: 13. Nineteen Eighty-Four on radio, stage, and screen Daniel Buckingham; 14. Making Nineteen Eighty-Four musical: pop, rock, and opera Jamie Wood; 15. Nineteen Eighty-Four and comics Isabelle Licari-Guillaume; 16. 'In this game that we're playing': Nineteen Eighty-Four and video games Soraya Murray; 17. Coda: the imaginaries of Nineteen Eighty-Four Adam Roberts; Further Reading.