LEADER 04324nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910777761903321 005 20230207224819.0 010 $a0-292-79545-9 024 7 $a10.7560/713086 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472958 035 $a(OCoLC)320324373 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245734 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000150963 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159008 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150963 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10316951 035 $a(PQKB)10933191 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443254 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2143 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443254 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245734 035 $a(DE-B1597)587840 035 $a(OCoLC)1286806046 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292795457 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472958 100 $a20060726d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEvery intellectual's big brother$b[electronic resource] $eGeorge Orwell's literary siblings /$fJohn Rodden 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 1 $aLiterary modernism series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71308-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-248) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPrologue: ?Orwell? Still Lives -- $tIntroduction: George Orwell and His Intellectual Progeny -- $tPART ONE. Their Orwell, Left and Right -- $tCHAPTER ONE: ?Not One of Us?? Orwell and the London Left of the 1930s and ?40s -- $tCHAPTER TWO: ?A Moral Genius?: Orwell and the Movement Writers of the 1950s -- $tCHAPTER THREE: ?London Letter? from a Family Cousin: The New York Intellectuals? Adoption of Orwell -- $tCHAPTER FOUR: ?A Leftist by Accident?? Orwell and the American Cultural Conservatives -- $tCHAPTER FIVE: Does Orwell Matter? Between Fraternity and Fratricide at the Nation -- $tPART TWO. Orwell?s Literary Siblings Today -- $tCHAPTER SIX: Iraq, the Internet, and ?the Big O? in 2003: A Centennial Report -- $tCHAPTER SEVEN: The Man within the Writings -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT: Unlessons from My Intellectual Big Brother -- $tEpilogue: On the Ethics of Literary Reputation -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aGeorge Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. Each succeeding generation of Anglo-American intellectuals has felt compelled to engage the life, work, and cultural afterlife of Orwell, who is considered by many to have been the foremost political writer of the twentieth century. Every Intellectual's Big Brother explores the ways in which numerous disparate groups, Orwell's intellectual "siblings," have adapted their views of Orwell to fit their own agendas and how in doing so they have changed our perceptions of Orwell himself. By examining the politics of literary reception as a dimension of cultural history, John Rodden gives us a better understanding of Orwell's unique and enduring role in Anglo-American intellectual life. In Part One, Rodden opens the book with a section titled "Their Orwell, Left and Right," which focuses on Orwell's reception by several important literary circles of the latter half of the twentieth century. Beginning with Orwell's own contemporaries, Rodden addresses the ways various intellectual groups of the 1950s responded to Orwell. Rodden then moves on in Part Two to what he calls the "Orwell Confraternity Today," those contemporary intellectuals who have, in various ways, identified themselves with or reacted against Orwell. The author concludes by examining how Orwell's status as an object of admiration and detraction has complicated the way in which he has been perceived by readers since his death. 410 0$aLiterary modernism series. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General$2bisacsh 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. 676 $a828/.91209 700 $aRodden$b John$0166124 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777761903321 996 $aEvery intellectual's big brother$93855229 997 $aUNINA