Political and Cultural Perceptions of George Orwell

British and American Views

Ian Williams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

186 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-349-95253-3 (ISBN)

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This book analyzes George Orwell’s politics and their reception across both sides of the Atlantic. It considers Orwell’s place in the politics of his native Britain and his reception in the USA, where he has had some of his most fervent emulators, exegetists, and detractors. Written by an ex “teenage Maoist” from Liverpool, UK, who now lives and writes in New York, the book points out how often the different strands of opinion derive from “ancestral” ideological struggles within the Communist/Trotskyist movement in the 30’s, and how these often overlook or indeed consciously ignore the indigenous British politics and sociology that did so much to influence Orwell’s political and literary development. It examines in the modern era what Orwell did in his–the seductions of simplistic and absolutist ideologies for some intellectuals, especially in their reactions to Orwell himself.

Ian Williams is Assistant Professor at Bard College Center for Global & International Affairs, USA. He is author of six other books on politics and history and speaks on international affairs and American foreign policy at venues and on media across the world.

1. Introduction: Orwell: Good or Ungood?.-2. In Defense of Comrade Psmith: the Orwellian treatment of Orwell.- 3. The Orwellian Method.- 4. Orwell the Socialist.- 5. Tangential Criticisms.- 6. Orwell's Own Airstrip One in 2014.- 7. The Persistence of Pessimism, Oceania 20 years after Nineteen Eighty-Four.- 8. Afterlife of An Atheist.- 9. No bother about Big Brother.- 10. Alexander Cockburn and "Snitching".- 11. The List.- 12. Disabusing Idiocy? Orwell & the Left.- 13. Orwell and the Democratic Left.- 14. Striking Back at the Empire.- 15. Revolution Is No Tea Party but It's Easier in a Salon: Reading the Leaves Afterwards.- 16. Orwell and the Left in the United States –the Under-reported side of Oceania!.- 17. Letters to Oceania?.- 18. Orwell's Lives.- 19. Why Hitchens Matters.- 20. Christopher Hitchens and Orwell.- 21. Christopher Hitchens and Orwell.- 22. Antithesis Incarnate: Christopher Hitchens, A Retrospective Glance.- 23. Hitchens and the Iraq War.- 24. Truth in Journalism.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 186 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Conservative • George Orwell • History • ideologies • Ideology • Journalism • Language and politics • left • Leon Trotsky • Literature and politics • newspeak • Orwell • Political Philosophy • political theory • Socialist
ISBN-10	1-349-95253-2 / 1349952532
ISBN-13	978-1-349-95253-3 / 9781349952533
Zustand	Neuware