Political and Cultural Perceptions of George Orwell

1. Introduction: Orwell
: Good or Ungood?
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Part I. Choking with Rage: Doublethink and Criticism

2. In Defense of Comrade Psmith
: The Orwellian
Treatment of Orwell

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3. The Orwellian
Method
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4.
Orwell
the Socialist
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5. Tangential Criticisms
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Part II. In Memoriam—Retrospective Views

6.
Orwell
’s Own Airstrip One
in 2014
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7. The Persistence of Pessimism, Oceania 20Years After Nineteen Eighteen-Four

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8. Afterlife of an Atheist
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Part III. Beyond the Telescreen—Snitching, Snooping and Surveillance

9. No Bother About Big Brother

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10. AlexanderCockburn
and “Snitching”
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11. The List
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Part IV. What Is Left?

12. Disabusing Idiocy? Orwell
and the Left
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13. And Orwell
and the Democratic Left
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14. Striking Back at the Empire
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Part V. Interlude

15. Revolution Is No Tea Party but It’s Easier in a Salon: Reading the Leaves Afterwards
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16.
Orwell
and the Left in the United States—The Under-Reported Side of Oceania!
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17. Letters to Oceania?
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18.
Irving Howe
, Orwell
’s Prophet in the USA
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Part VI. Cover Bards—Hitchens the Orwell Emulator and His Detractors

19.
Orwell
’s Lives
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20. Why Hitchens


Matters
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21.
Christopher Hitchens
and Orwell

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22. Antithesis Incarnate: Christopher Hitchens
, a Retrospective Glance
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23.
Hitchens

and the Iraq
War
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24. Truth in Journalism
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