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Author Rodden, John

Title George Orwell : the Politics of Literary Reputation
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (533 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface; Introduction. Appraising Famous Men: Mediating Biography and Society; PART ONE. ANATOMY OF REPUTATION; Chapter One. Orwell into the Nineties; 1. Reputation, Legacy, Historiography; Chapter Two. Terms of Repute: Conditions, Constraints; 2. Literary Studies and the Problem of Reputation; 3. A Critical Perspective; i. From Aesthetic to Rhetoric; ii. Between Literary Figure and Institutional Reader; iii. Identification and Identity
Iv. The Reading Experience and the Writer's Public Imagev. Approaching Orwell's Reputation: Distinctive Features; vi. ""The Faces Behind the Page"": Images of Orwell; PART TWO. THE PORTRAIT GALLERY; Chapter Three. The Rebel; 4. A Rebel's Progress; 5. ""Knight Errant of Social Justice"": Orwell as Don Quixote; 6. ""Permanent Outsider"" Among Friends: Orwell's Compartmentalized Life; 7. Lives of Independence: The History of Orwell Biography; 8. ""Always Fighting Against Something"": George Woodcock and the Anarchists' Orwell; Chapter Four. The Common Man
9. Decency and Democracy: The Aspiring Plebeian10. An Ex-Socialist: Raymond Williams and the British Marxists' Orwell; 11. Enemy of Mankind?: The Soviet Union's Orwell; 12. A Sexist After All?: The Feminists' Orwell; 13. Critic and Object of Popular Culture; Chapter Five. The Prophet; 14. Author of the book; 15. If Orwell Were Alive Today ..., -- 16. Media Prophet: Orwell on the Telescreen; 17. The Spectre of Der Grosse Bruder: West Germany's Orwell; 18. Friend and Prophet: T.R. Fyvel and the Tribune writers' Orwell; Chapter Six. The Saint
19. 'St. George, ' The Halfway Saint20. Socialist ""intellectual hero, "" neoconservativc ""guiding spirit"": lrving Howe, Norman Podhoretz, and the New York lntellectuals' Orwell; 21. The Religious Fellow-Traveler: Christopher Hollis, Brian Wicker, and the British Catholics' Orwell; 22. Canonization and the Curriculum: Orwell in the Classroom; Conclusion. ""Tuppence for the Opinion of Posterity"": The Intellectual Hero in History; Acknowledgments; Notes; Terms of Repute: A Glossary; Index
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Subject Orwell, George -- Cr
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Author Rodden, John
ISBN 9781351517652
1351517651