The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell

Zusammenfassung George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. Chapters in this 2007 Companion address his positions on war and pacifism! patriotism! his anti-Communism and his status in the literary academy! among other topics. A detailed chronology of Orwell's life and work is also included. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Notes on contributors; An Orwell calendar John Rodden; 1. A political writer John Rossi and John Rodden; 2. Orwell and the biographers Gordon Bowker; 3. Englands his Englands: Orwell's Britain between the wars Jonathan Rose; 4. The truths of experience: Orwell's nonfiction of the 1930s Margery Sabin; 5. The fictional realist: novels of the 1930s Michael Levenson; 6. Orwell's essays as a literary experience William Cain; 7. 'My Country, Right or Left': Orwell's patriotism John Rossi; 8. Orwell and the British left Ian Williams; 9. Orwell, anti-semitism, and the Holocaust John Newsinger; 10. Orwell and the Cold War Robert Conquest; 11. Animal Farm: history as fable M. Dickstein; 12. Nineteen Eighty-Four: context and controversy B. Crick; 13. Orwell, the academy, and the intellectuals Neil McLaughlin; 14. Orwell for today's reader: an open letter John Rodden; 15. George Orwell: a bibliographic essay Erika Gottlieb; 16. Why Orwell still matters Christopher Hitchens; Further reading.

Product details

• Authors: John Rodden
• Assisted by: John Rodden (Editor), John (University of Texas Rodden (Editor), Stuart Taberner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2007
• EAN: 9780521675079
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67507-9
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies