Introduction
As introduced to us, the idea of a digital edition was already too wide to talk about a broad subject that was viewed and reviewed by professionals hundreds of times. That is why, in a common decision, we decided to elaborate and publish a digital edition of a text written by George Orwell. Reading this, you might think that him being a famous, well-known author of the 20th century, the easy choice was Animal Farm, or Nineteen Eighty-Four, but no. We decided to publish a digital edition of The Lesser Evil, a poem published in 1936, among others written by George Orwell that did not make him famous in his young years. Debating themes such a morality among the choice of believing, religion in life, and legitimacy of the church, the poem gets the reader to reflect on religion in a time period evolving around conflict and tensions, in 1936.
This project aims to trace a better understanding of The Lesser Evil, as well as studying Orwell’s poems globally.
Useful links :
The Lesser Evil, with annotations
Analysis on the distant reading
To go deeper :
Main contributors of this project :
Eóghan Archipczuk (French Exchange Student) : annotations, analysis, website
Eric Simota (Dickinson College) : annotations, analysis
Aniya Smith (Dickinson College) : distant reading data
Cimani Smith (Dickinson College) : distant reading data