George Orwell (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

✍ Scribed by Harold Bloom (Edited and with an introduction by)

• Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Series: Bloom s Modern Critical Views
• Edition: 2 Updated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Harold Bloom concurs with other critics who refer to George Orwell as the best of modern pamphleteers. Examine his work with this volume, including the widelyread Animal Farm and 1984. This title, George Orwell, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of George Orwell through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on George Orwell, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Editor's Note......Page 8
Harold Bloom - Introduction......Page 10
Lange - Autobiography: An Analysis of 'Shooting an Elephant'......Page 18
Fowler - Versions of Realism......Page 32
Warner - The Underground Man as Big Brother: Dostoevsky’s and Orwell’s Anti-Utopia......Page 58
Rae - Orwell's Heart of Darkness: The Road to Wigan Pier......Page 72
Shuttleworth - The Real George Orwell: Dis-simulation in Homage to catalonia and Coming Up for Air......Page 106
Cain - Orwell’s Perversity: An Approach to the Collected Essays......Page 124
Decker - George Orwell’s 1984 and Political Ideology......Page 142
Kirschner - The Dual Purpose of Animal Farm......Page 154
Federico - Making Do: George Orwell’s Coming Up for Air......Page 190
Chronology......Page 206
Contributors......Page 208
Bibliography......Page 210
Acknowledgments......Page 213
Index......Page 215