G.K. Chesterton's literary influence on George Orwell
Subtitle: a surprising irony
By: Luke Seaber ; with a foreword by R.A. Henderson
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773425804
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A critical examination of Orwell's references to Chesterton; title: Father Brown in 1984: Chestertonian presences in the novels of Orwell; title: 'Who is to be master?': use and misuse of public language; title: 'All propaganda is lies': a comparison of the wartime propaganda of Chesterton and Orwell; title: The centrality of politics: nationalism, distributism and the symbolic figure of Dickens; title: 'The past is a foreign country': postcolonial, imperial and historical alterity.