Victory Gin Lane. Starvation and Beverages in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
Gin is an ubiquitous presence in the domestic and urban scenery of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). For a population mercilessly hungered, it represents a handy and cheap commodity item providing a fluid opportunity for social aggregation. Victory Gin, served “in handless chine mugs” (53), is part of th...
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Università degli Studi di Milano
2015-05-01
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/4831 |