Explorest the life and work of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.

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;