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Critical essays on George Orwell / [compiled by] Bernard Oldsey and Joseph Browne.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical essays on modern British literaturePublication details: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1986.Description: viii, 256 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0816187509 (alk. paper)
  • 9780816187508 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Critical essays on George Orwell.DDC classification:
  • 828/.91209 19
LOC classification:
  • PR6029.R8 Z6278 1986
Contents:
Introduction / Bernard Oldsey -- If Orwell were alive today / Norman Podhoretz -- Orwell in 1984 / John Atkins -- The uses of form : a reading of Animal farm / Robert A. Lee -- The making of Animal farm / Bernard Crick -- Of man's last disobedience : Zamiatin's we and Orwell's 1984 / Gorman Beauchamp -- The death of big sister : Orwell's tragic message / Joan Weatherly -- Antonomies of Nineteen eighty-four / Carl Freedman -- Orwell and the lower-middle-class novel / Terry Eagleton -- Orwell's A clergyman's daughter : the flight from history / Richard I. Smyer -- In dubious battle : George Orwell and the victory of the money-god / Nicholas Guild -- The times of their lives : George Orwell's Coming up for air / Joseph Browne -- Down and out in Paris and London : the conflict of art and politics / David L. Kubal -- Foreword to The road to Wigan Pier / Victor Gollancz -- George Orwell and The road to Wigan Pier / Richard Hoggart -- Life against odds : homage to Catalonia / George Woodcock -- The essays of George Orwell / J.R. Hammond.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 229-249.

Introduction / Bernard Oldsey -- If Orwell were alive today / Norman Podhoretz -- Orwell in 1984 / John Atkins -- The uses of form : a reading of Animal farm / Robert A. Lee -- The making of Animal farm / Bernard Crick -- Of man's last disobedience : Zamiatin's we and Orwell's 1984 / Gorman Beauchamp -- The death of big sister : Orwell's tragic message / Joan Weatherly -- Antonomies of Nineteen eighty-four / Carl Freedman -- Orwell and the lower-middle-class novel / Terry Eagleton -- Orwell's A clergyman's daughter : the flight from history / Richard I. Smyer -- In dubious battle : George Orwell and the victory of the money-god / Nicholas Guild -- The times of their lives : George Orwell's Coming up for air / Joseph Browne -- Down and out in Paris and London : the conflict of art and politics / David L. Kubal -- Foreword to The road to Wigan Pier / Victor Gollancz -- George Orwell and The road to Wigan Pier / Richard Hoggart -- Life against odds : homage to Catalonia / George Woodcock -- The essays of George Orwell / J.R. Hammond.