The Legacy of Nineteen Eighty-Four: British Dystopias, from 1984 to the present day by Claire Wrobel

“…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 produced since then. …”
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