| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: George Orwell into the Twenty-first Century |
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I. The Use and Abuse of Nineteen Eighty-Four |
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Abolishing the Orgasm: Orwell and the Politics of Sexual Persecution |
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In Defense of Comrade Psmith: The Orwellian Treatment of Orwell |
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45 | (18) |
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Hope against Hope: Orwell's Posthumous Novel |
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63 | (14) |
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II. Ideas, Ideologies, and Intellectuals |
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George Orwell and the Liberal Experience of Totalitarianism |
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77 | (9) |
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On the Ethics of Admiration---and Detraction |
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86 | (10) |
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The Public Intellectual as Connected Critic: George Orwell and Religion |
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96 | (15) |
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Orwell, Pacifism, Pacifists |
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111 | (15) |
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Varieties of Patriotic Experience |
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126 | (19) |
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Vulgar Nationalism and Insulting Nicknames: George Orwell's Progressive Reflections on Race |
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145 | (15) |
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Orwell's ``Smelly Little Orthodoxies''---and Ours |
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160 | (18) |
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Orwell in an Age of Celebrity |
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178 | (9) |
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III. Of Biography and Autobiography |
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Writing about Orwell: A Personal Account |
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187 | (7) |
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Orwell: Unmasker of Underlying Realities |
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194 | (6) |
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Third Thoughts about Orwell? |
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200 | (15) |
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IV. Literary and Stylistic Issues |
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Orwell's Perversity: An Approach to the Collected Essays |
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215 | (14) |
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Prescience and Resilience in George Orwell's Political Aesthetics |
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229 | (14) |
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Outside/Inside: Searching for Wigan Pier |
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243 | (9) |
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Orwell's Satirical Vision on the Screen: The Film Versions of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four |
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252 | (15) |
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George Orwell: Russia's Tocqueville |
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267 | (19) |
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May Days in Barcelona: Orwell, Langdon-Davies, and the Cultural Memory of War |
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286 | (9) |
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From Ingsoc to Capsoc: Perceptions of Orwell in France |
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295 | (17) |
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| About the Contributors |
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