Every Intellectual's Big Brother : : George Orwell's Literary Siblings /

Every Intellectual's Big Brother : : George Orwell's Literary Siblings / / John Rodden.

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George Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. Each succeeding generation of Anglo-American intellectuals has felt compelled to engage the life, work, and cultural afterlife of Orwell, who is considered by many to have been the foremost...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Rodden, John,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Literary Modernism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: “Orwell” Still Lives
  • Introduction: George Orwell and His Intellectual Progeny
  • PART ONE. Their Orwell, Left and Right
  • CHAPTER ONE: “Not One of Us?” Orwell and the London Left of the 1930s and ’40s
  • CHAPTER TWO: “A Moral Genius”: Orwell and the Movement Writers of the 1950s
  • CHAPTER THREE: “London Letter” from a Family Cousin: The New York Intellectuals’ Adoption of Orwell
  • CHAPTER FOUR: “A Leftist by Accident?” Orwell and the American Cultural Conservatives
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Does Orwell Matter? Between Fraternity and Fratricide at the Nation
  • PART TWO. Orwell’s Literary Siblings Today
  • CHAPTER SIX: Iraq, the Internet, and “the Big O” in 2003: A Centennial Report
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: The Man within the Writings
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: Unlessons from My Intellectual Big Brother
  • Epilogue: On the Ethics of Literary Reputation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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