Orwell Reconsidered (Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics)

ISBN: 0367344793

Author: Ingle, Stephen

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George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists, commentators and politicians, and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society.Stephen Ingle explores Orwells character, his life and his beliefs by guiding the reader through the main events, private and public, that shaped his life and major works. This includes his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War as well as the writing of classics like Animal Farm and 1984. The book also reconsiders Orwells legacy and contextualises his contemporary resonance. Orwell, it is argued, is more concerned with morality than ideology.This book will be of significant interest to students and other readers interested in Orwells life as well as his profound contribution to the history of social and political thought and English literature.