George Orwell

Irving Howe (1920-1993) was the founding editor of Dissent Magazine and the author of Politics and the Novel, World of Our Fathers, and Socialism in America. He was a founder of Democratic Socialists of America and was considered one of the country's most influential literary critics until his death. John Rodden is the author of George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation, Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell, and Understanding Orwell's Animal Farm. Thomas Cushman, Wellesley College, is the editor of The Journal of Human Rights and was the principal organizer of the George Orwell Centenary Conference at Wellesley College.

Introduction George Orwell into the Twenty-first Century, Thomas Cushman; Part I The Use and Abuse of Nineteen Eighty-Four; Chapter 1 Abolishing the Orgasm: Orwell and the Politics of Sexual Persecution, Jonathan Rose; Chapter 2 In Defense of Comrade Psmith: The Orwellian Treatment of Orwell, Ian Williams; Chapter 3 Hope against Hope: Orwell’s Posthumous Novel, Morris Dickstein; Part II Ideas, Ideologies, and Intellectuals; Chapter 4 George Orwell and the Liberal Experience of Totalitarianism, Christopher Hitchens; Chapter 5 On the Ethics of Admiration—and Detraction, John Rodden; Chapter 6 The Public Intellectual as Connected Critic: George Orwell and Religion, Ronald F. Thiemann; Chapter 7 Orwell, Pacifism, Pacifists, Lawrence Rosenwald; Chapter 8 Varieties of Patriotic Experience, Todd Gitlin; Chapter 9 Vulgar Nationalism and Insulting Nicknames: George Orwell’s Progressive Reflections on Race, Anthony Stewart; Chapter 10 Orwell’s “Smelly Little Orthodoxies”—and Ours, Jim Sleeper; Chapter 11 Orwell in an Age of Celebrity, Jonathan B. Imber; Part III Of Biography and Autobiography; Chapter 12 Writing about Orwell: A Personal Account, Peter Stansky; Chapter 13 Orwell: Unmasker of Underlying Realities, Dennis Wrong; Chapter 14 Third Thoughts about Orwell?, Daphne Patai; Part IV Literary and Stylistic Issues; Chapter 15 Orwell’s Perversity: An Approach to the Collected Essays, William E. Cain; Chapter 16 Prescience and Resilience in George Orwell’s Political Aesthetics, Lynette Hunter; Chapter 17 Outside/Inside: Searching for Wigan Pier, Margery Sabin; Chapter 18 Orwell’s Satirical Vision on the Screen: The Film Versions of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Erika Gottlieb; Part V Orwell Abroad; Chapter 19 George Orwell: Russia’s Tocqueville, Vladimir Shlapentokh; Chapter 20 May Days in Barcelona: Orwell, Langdon-Davies, and the Cultural Memory of War, Miquel Berga; Chapter 21 From Ingsoc to Capsoc: Perceptions of Orwell in France, Gilbert Bonifas;