The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell

This book offers a comprehensive view of Orwell's thought and writing via forty-eight chapters written by an international team of Orwell specialists. It addresses familiar topics--such as Orwell's journalism--and also includes innovative considerations of feminism, Afrofuturism, and queer speculative fiction.

Nathan Waddell is a Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Moonlighting: Beethoven and Literary Modernism(Oxford University Press, 2019) and edited Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughterfor the Oxford World's Classics series in 2021, along with The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Fourin 2020. He has published widely on Wyndham Lewis, John Buchan, and Ford Madox Ford, and sits on the editorial board of the journal George Orwell Studies.

- Preface
- Contributors
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Activities
- 1: Helen Tyson: Orwell the Reader
- 2: Luke Seaber: Orwell the Humorist
- 3: Lisa Mullen: Orwell the Stylist
- 4: Patricia Rae: Orwell the Innovator
- 5: Peter Marks: Orwell the Essayist
- 6: Jaron Murphy: Orwell the Journalist
- 7: Natasha Periyan: Orwell the Literary Critic
- 8: Emily Bloom: Orwell the Broadcaster
- Part II: Influences
- 9: Michael G. Brennan: Orwell and William Shakespeare
- 10: Elizabeth Cook and Nathan Waddell: Orwell and John Milton
- 11: Michael Hollington: Orwell and Charles Dickens
- 12: Adam Rounce: Orwell and Jonathan Swift
- 13: D. J. Taylor: Orwell and George Gissing
- 14: Robert Hampson: Orwell, Joseph Conrad, and Rudyard Kipling
- 15: Patrick Parrinder: Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, and H. G. Wells
- 16: Sascha Morrell: Orwell and Modernism
- Part III: Politics
- 17: James Gifford: Orwell, Anarchism, and Revolution
- 18: David Goodway: Orwell and Trotskyism
- 19: Stephen Ingle: Orwell, Consumption, and Destitution
- 20: Alex Woloch: Orwell and Socialism
- 21: Ameya Tripathi: Orwell, Progress, and the Intellectuals
- 22: Matthew Taunton: Orwell and the Politics of Culture
- 23: Priya Satia: Orwell, Race, and Empire
- 24: Kristian Williams: Orwell and Justice
- Part IV: Fixations
- 25: Peter Fifield: Orwell and the Body
- 26: Beryl Pong: Orwell, War, and Violence
- 27: Beci Carver: Orwell and Machines
- 28: Noreen Masud: Orwell and the Absurd
- 29: Jamie Wood: Orwell and Stupidity
- 30: Sarah Gibbs: Orwell's Beasts
- 31: Richard Lance Keeble: Orwell and Childhood
- 32: Erin Carlston: Orwell's Jewish Problem
- 33: Megan Faragher: Orwell and Kindness
- 34: Rachael Stanley: Orwell and Sexuality
- 35: Ben Clarke: Orwell, Englishness, and Class
- Part V: Contemporaries
- 36: Ian Haywood: Orwell and Jack Common
- 37: Elizabeth English: Orwell and Katharine Burdekin
- 38: Alan Munton: Orwell and Wyndham Lewis
- 39: Jennifer Cowe: Orwell and Henry Miller
- 40: Peter Brian Barry: Orwell and Bertrand Russell
- 41: Anna Vaninskaya: Orwell and Victor Serge
- 42: Benjamin Kohlmann: Orwell and the 'Auden Generation'
- 43: Melissa Dinsman: Orwell, Una Marson, and Mulk Raj Anand
- Part VI: Legacies
- 44: Karina Jakubowicz: Orwell's Words
- 45: Kristin Bluemel: Orwell and Feminism
- 46: Rachele Dini: Orwell, Afrofuturism, and Queer Speculative Fiction
- 47: Madeleine Davies: Orwell and Margaret Atwood
- 48: Elizabeth Losh: Orwell and Social Media