Table of Contents

Acknowledgements General Editor's Preface Introduction; B. Loughrey, G.Holderness and N.Yousaf Revolution on Animal Farm: Orwell's Neglected Commentary; V.C.Letemendia Animal Farm: Satire into Allegory; L.Hunter Orwell's Political Persuasion: A Rhetoric of Personality; R.Filloy Orwell Paterfamilias or Big Brother? B.Campbell The Inversion of Form: Deconstructing 1984; A.Kennedy Character, Progression and Thematism in 1984; J.Phelan Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Insufficient Self; P.Reilly The Last Intellectual in Europe; R.Rorty On the Political Sociology of Intellectuals: George Orwell and the London Left Intelligentsia; J.Rodden George Orwell's England; M.Walzer 'The Journalists Do the Shouting': Orwell and Propaganda; S.Denith The Anti-Imperialism of George Orwell; S.Ingle Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index.

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GRAHAM HOLDERNESS is Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Education, and Director of Research Policy at the University of Hertfordshire. BRYAN LOUGHREY is Director of Research at Roehampton Institute, London. NAHEM YOUSAF is a Researcher at the University of Hertfordshire.