The Legacy of Nineteen Eighty-Four: British Dystopias, from 1984 to the present day
This introductory piece looks back at the “Orwellian moment” that was the year 1984, which prompted a re-examination of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s potential prophecies and witnessed a dystopian resurgence in literature, then asks whether an Orwellian posterity can be traced in the British dystopias prod...
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Main Author: | Claire Wrobel |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2022-11-01
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Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/12872 |
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