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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) remains a book of the moment. This Companion builds on successive waves of generational inheritance and debate in the novel's reception by asking new questions about how and why Nineteen Eighty-Four was written, what it means, and why it matters. Chapters on a selection of the novel's interpretative contexts, the literary histories from which it is inseparable, the urgent questions it raises, and the impact it has had on other kinds of media, ranging from radio to video games, open up the conversation in an expansive way. Established concerns (e.g. Orwell's attitude to the working class, his anxieties about the socio-political compartmentalization of the post-war world) are presented alongside newer ones (e.g. his views on evil, and the influence of Nineteen Eighty-Four on comics). Individual essays help us see in new ways how Orwell's most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

English literature --- History and criticism. --- Orwell, George, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large. The volume affirms Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore connections between Brave New World and the nature of utopia, the 1930s American Technocracy movement, education and social control, pleasure, reproduction, futurology, inter-war periodical networks, motherhood, ethics and the Anthropocene, islands, and the moral life. The volume also includes a ‘Foreword’ written by David Bradshaw, one of the world’s top Huxley scholars. Timely and consistently illuminating, this collection is essential reading for students, critics, and Huxley enthusiasts alike. .

Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- History and criticism --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Dystopias in literature. --- Science fiction, English. --- Literature, Modern. --- Huxley, Aldous, --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- English science fiction --- English fiction --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Huxley, Aldous --- Brave new world (Huxley, Aldous) --- Anti-Utopie --- Ludwig, Volker --- 1932 --- Krasni novi svet (Huxley, Aldous)

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Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Literature and society --- History --- Buchan, John, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted critical models of modernist and twentieth-century literary history. An international group of scholars considers works by E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Naomi Mitchison, Katharine Burdekin, Rex Warner, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Thomas Pynchon, Elizabeth Bowen, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Ernst Bloch. In doing so, this volume's contributors prompt new reflections on key aspects of utopianism in experimental twentieth-century literature and non-fictional writing; deepen literary-historical understandings of modernism's socio-political implications; and bear out the on-going relevance of modernism's explorations of utopian thought. Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century will appeal to anyone with an interest in how deeply and how differently modernist writers, as well as writers influenced by or resistant to modernist styles, engaged with issues of utopianism, perfectibility, and social betterment.

Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Utopias in literature. --- Literature and society. --- History and criticism.