Guest Editorial Engaging Critically with a Writer who Can Still Surprise Us - by Nathan Waddell Papers Big Brother, Big Tech: Doctorow's Little Brother and Huber's Orwell's Revenge - by Jackson Ayres The Essayist's Velvet Fist - by Mir Ali Hosseini George Orwell's Gandhi - by Douglas Kerr What Was Orwell's Conception of Free Speech? - by Mark Satta The Labyrinths of Nineteen Eighty-Four - by Selina-Marie Scholz and Geoff Rodoreda Critically Ill: George Orwell, Tragic Biography and the Crisis of Endings - by Kristin Bluemel Other Papers John Bull's Other Airstrip: Orwell's Irish Blindspot - by Martin Tyrrell George Orwell, Ayer and Russell and the Battle for the Soul of Philosophy - by Peter Brian Barry Articles Orwell in Cornwall - by Darcy Moore The Achievement of Ian Angus - by John Rodden The BBC'S Nineteen Eighty-Four Remastered for a New Generation - by Hassan Akram Attwood's Imaginary Interview with Orwell - by Richard Lance Keeble Pedagogy of the Distressed?: 'Politics and the English language' in and out of the Classroom - by John Rodden Two Poems To George Orwell/Eric Blair - by Paul Abdul Wadud Sutherland A Song for Orwell - by David Punter Tributes to the Founder of The Orwell Society Dione Venable's Contribution to the Development of Orwell Studies - by Quentin Kopp Dear Dione - by Darcy Moore Book Reviews Kristin Bluemel on George Orwell: The New Life, by D.J. Taylor; Bryan Yazell on The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950, by Luke Lewin Davies; Peter Brian Barry on George Orwell's Perverse Humanity: Socialism and Free Speech, by Glenn Burgess; Richard Lance Keeble on In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility, by Costica Bradatan And Finally New Pitcher (appropriately anonymous) launches a new, lively diary item to intrigue and entertain Orwellians

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of George Orwell.

In this first book-length study of Ayn Rand's anti-utopia Anthem, essays explore the historical, literary, and philosophical themes presiding in this novella written in opposition to the totalitarianism of the Soviet Union (and Nazi Germany). Written in 1937, published in 1938 in Britain, and subsequently in a revised form in the United States in 1946, Anthem investigates the importance of the ego and freedom, and the individual against the state. Editor Robert Mayhew has collected a variety of essays dealing with such topics including: the history behind the novella's creation, publication, and reception; its connection to other anti-utopian novels; and, the significance of ego and freedom, which it portrays and defends. This book is important to philosophers as well as readers looking to gain a better understanding of Ayn Rand and Anthem.

George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most influential authors in the English language. His landmark novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have been translated into many foreign languages and inspired numerous stage and film adaptations. His well-known essays "A Hanging" and "Shooting an Elephant" are widely anthologized and often taught in college composition classes. The writer is credited with inventing the terms "Big Brother," "thought crime," "unperson" and "double think." His name itself has become an adjective--"Orwellian." Seventy years after its publication, Nineteen Eighty-Four remains very popular, its sales surging in an era of enhanced surveillance and media manipulation. This literary companion provides an extensive chronology and more than 175 entries about both his literary works and personal life. Also included are discussion questions and research topics, notable quotations by Orwell and an extensive bibliography of related sources.

A new and challenging account of Scotland's position within the United Kingdom. Written by a senior policy adviser to the UK government on devolution policy in the aftermath of the EU referendum, ranging from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.

Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attraction for scholars of war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy. It reveals the processes by which scholars conceived and devised the book, considering both successful and failed attempts to make and remake the work across the twentieth century, and illuminating its impact and legacy. It explains how and why these influential volumes took their particular forms, unearths the broader intellectual processes that shaped them, and reflects on the academic parameters of the study of war in the twentieth century. In presenting a complete genesis of the Makers project in the context of intellectual trends and historical contingency, this book reflects on a more complex and nuanced appraisal of the development of scholarship on war. In so doing it also offers contributions to the intellectual biographies of key figures in the history of war in the twentieth century, such as Edward Mead Earle, Peter Paret, Gordon Craig, and Theodore Ropp. Making Makers contributes to an intellectual history of military history and contextualises the place of history and historians in strategic and security studies. It is not only a history of the book, but a history of the networks of scholars involved in its creation, their careers, and lines of patronage, crossing international boundaries, from Europe to the USA, to Asia and Australia. It is an investigation of ideas, individuals, and groups, of work completed and scholarship produced, as well as contingency and opportunities missed.

The Rock Music Imagination is an exploration of rock artists in their social and artistic contexts, particularly between 1964 and 1980, and of rock music in relation to literature, that is, creative expression, fantastic imagination, and contemporary fiction about rock. Robert McParland analyzes how rock music touches our imaginative lives by looking at themes that appear in classic rock music: freedom and liberation, utopia and dystopia, community, rebellion, the outsider, the quest for transcendence, monstrosity, erotic and spiritual love, imaginative vision, and mystery. The Rock Music Imagination explores blues imagination, countercultural dreams of utopia, rock’s critiques of society and images of dystopia, rock’s inheritance from romanticism, science fiction and mythic imagination in progressive rock, and rock’s global reach and potential to provide hope and humanitarian assistance.