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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2022-11-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/12872
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