Title: The politics of literary reputation : the making and claiming of "St. George" Orwell /
Authors: Rodden, John
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Orwell, George, Criticism and interpretation History.; Canon (Literature)
Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Appraising famous men: mediating biography and society -- pt. 1. Anatomy of a reputation -- ch.1. Orwell into the nineties -- Reputation, legacy, historiography -- ch.2. Terms of repute: conditions, constraints -- Literary studies and the problem of reputation -- A critical perspective: From aesthetic to rhetoric ; Between literary figure and institutional reader ; Identification and identity ; The reading experience and the writer's public image ; Approaching Orwell's reputation: distinctive features ; "The faces behind the page": images of Orwell -- pt. 2. The portrait gallery -- ch.3. The rebel -- A rebel's progress -- "Knight errant of social justice": Orwell as Don Quixote -- "Permanent outsider" among friends: Orwell's compartmentalized life -- Lives of independence: the history of Orwell biography -- "Always fighting against something": George Woodcock and the anarchists' Orwell -- ch.4. The common man -- Decency and democracy: the aspiring plebian -- "A ex-socialist": Raymond Williams and the British Marxists' Orwell -- "Enemy of mankind?" the Soviet Union's Orwell -- "A sexist after all?": the feminists' Orwell -- Critic and object of popular culture -- ch.5. The prophet -- Author of 'the book' -- "If Orwell were alive today..." -- "Media prophet: Orwell on the telescreen -- The spectre of 'Der Grosse Bruder': West Germany's Orwell -- "Friend and prophet": T.R. Fyvel and the 'Tribune' writers' Orwell -- ch.6. The saint -- 'St. George,' the halfway saint -- Socialist "intellectual hero," neoconservative "guiding spirit": Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz, and the New York intellectuals' Orwell -- The religious fellow-traveler: Christopher Hollis, Brian Wicker, and the British Catholics' Orwell -- Canonization and the curriculum: Orwell in the classroom -- Conclusion: "Tuppence for the opinion of posterity": The intellectual hero in history.