George Orwell

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface 1
• Part I - The Man of Letters 3
• 1 - G. K. Chesterton and Nineteen Eighty-Four 5
• 2 - Past and Present in Coming Up for Air and Nineteen Eighty-Four: a Comparison with Rex Warner's the Aerodrome 11
• 3 - Sugarcandy Mountain: Thoughts on George Orwell's Critique of the Christian Doctrine of Personal Immortality 19
• 4 - Beyond Orwell: Clarity and the English Language 27
• 5 - The Rhetoric of Down and out in Paris and London 35
• 6 - Orwell: from Clerisy to Intelligentsia 43
• 7 - Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Spirit of Schweik 51
• 8 - Orwell, Self-Taught Student of English History 59
• 9 - A Monument to the Obvious: George Orwell and Poetry 65
• 10 - George Orwell and the Problematics of Nonfiction 75
• Part II - The Political Man 83
• 11 - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Gravity's Rainbow: Two Anti-Utopias Compared 85

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface 1
• Part I - The Man of Letters 3
• 1 - G. K. Chesterton and Nineteen Eighty-Four 5
• 2 - Past and Present in Coming Up for Air and Nineteen Eighty-Four: a Comparison with Rex Warner's the Aerodrome 11
• 3 - Sugarcandy Mountain: Thoughts on George Orwell's Critique of the Christian Doctrine of Personal Immortality 19
• 4 - Beyond Orwell: Clarity and the English Language 27
• 5 - The Rhetoric of Down and out in Paris and London 35
• 6 - Orwell: from Clerisy to Intelligentsia 43
• 7 - Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Spirit of Schweik 51
• 8 - Orwell, Self-Taught Student of English History 59
• 9 - A Monument to the Obvious: George Orwell and Poetry 65
• 10 - George Orwell and the Problematics of Nonfiction 75
• Part II - The Political Man 83
• 11 - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Gravity's Rainbow: Two Anti-Utopias Compared 85
• 12 - Nineteen Eighty-Four and George Orwell's Other View of Capitalism 93
• 13 - Orwell versus Koestler: Nineteen Eighty-Four as Optimistic Satire 101
• 14 - Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Massaging of the Media 111
• 15 - Nineteen Eighty-Four as Dystopia 119
• 16 - More to Orwell: an Easy Leap from Utopia to Nineteen Eighty-Four 127
• 17 - Nineteen Eighty-Four: a Novel of the 1930s 135
• 18 - Orwell, Proudhon, and the Moral Order 145
• 19 - The Political Basis of Orwell's Criticism of Popular Culture 151
• 20 - George Orwell: the Politics of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Asian Ambivalences 157
• 21 - The Lure of Power in Post-Orwellian Political Fiction 165
• 22 - Jack London and George Orwell: a Literary Kinship 171
• George Orwell International Conference 177
• Index 197
• About the Editors and Contributors 201