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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2007
Print publication year:
2007
Online ISBN:
9781139001472
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521858429
Collection:
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1900-1945
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Book description

George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer and his literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell's writing and influence is an indispensable resource. Accordingly, this 2007 Companion serves as both an introduction to Orwell's work and furnishes numerous innovative interpretations and fresh critical perspectives on it. Throughout the Companion, which includes chapters dedicated to two of Orwell's major novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, Orwell's work is placed within the context of the political and social climate of the time. His response to the Depression, British imperialism, Stalinism, World War II, and the politics of the British Left are also examined.

Reviews

'This is a genuine companion. The essays are sharp and to the point; never outstay their welcome; and, unlike so much academic writing which seems to be more concerned to address a narrow field of fellow academics, is completely free of jargon. Orwell would have been delighted.'

Peter Davison Source: The Orwell Forum

'…the broad readership that his title will appeal to is well served by this accessible book that would be a welcome addition to both public and academic library collections.'

Source: Languages and Literature

' … there are some interesting things in this volume. There is good introductory essays by John Rossi and Jon Rodden …'

Source: The Review of English Studies

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