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An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell - one of the most influential literary twentieth-century figures....
A reflection on Orwell-as-idea that “outlines some of the misconceptions and misuses of the Orwell name” (Modern Fiction Studies). The year 1984 i...
The Politics of Literary Reputation
This study examines how George Orwell's legacy as a writer developed, and the importance of his work both during and after his lifetime. John Rodden s...
The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell
George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 have sold 40 million copies in 65 languages, more than any other pair of books by a single writer in history. And...
Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity
Textbook Reds is a work in the sociology of education, and literary sociology and history. Rodden shows that the deepest roots of German Democratic Re...
George Orwell's Literary Siblings
George Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. Each succeeding generation of Anglo-Amer...
Eastern and Western Germans Since Reunification
The Walls That Remain explores the trauma of German reunification in 1990 as it affected ordinary Eastern and Western Germans. Told mainly in their ow...
Inner Worlds and Outer Limits in the British Psychological Novel
Between Self and Society explores the psychosocial dramas that galvanize six major British novels written between the eighteenth and twentieth centuri...
Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, acco...
A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995
This is the first-ever English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the complete history of Eastern German ed...
Evolution or Extinction?
This book explores the prospects for survival of what we have come to know as “the intellectual” in the post-Gutenberg age. It addresses the conte...
Stories from East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse
"Accounts of human rights violations committed from the 1950s to the 1980s by the communist dictatorship in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR...
Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his...
A Biography
From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, ...
How Writers Craft Their Public Selves
When authors are interviewed about their books or themselves, much more is going on than a simple conversation. The interview becomes a performance sp...
The Legacy of George Orwell
Rodden, one of the world's leading Orwell scholars, sorts through the uses to which Orwell has been put in the last few decades, suggesting where, whe...
The FBI and the New York Intellectuals
Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of inte...
The Critical Legacy
The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy is a wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural, and political work of the w...
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