1948 - A Critical and Creative Prequel to Orwell''s 1984

Offers an answer to: what would Orwell have written after 1984, had he lived?

About the author

Professor of English at Northern Illinois University just west of Chicago, Brian May is the author of two previous books, Extravagant Postcolonialism: Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958-1988 (2014) and The Modernist as Pragmatist: E.M. Forster and the Fate of Liberalism (1996).

Summary

1948 offers an answer to the question, what would George Orwell have written after 1984, had he lived? It quotes, parodies, and pastiches Orwell’s Diaries of the period just before his death, and offers the reader a prequel to 1984 that explores the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwell's last great novel.

Product details

• Authors: Brian May
• Publisher: University Of Exeter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2023
• EAN: 9781804131299
• ISBN: 978-1-80413-129-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies