George Orwell As Social Conservative: Populism, Pessimism, and Nationalism in an Organic Community, 1934-43
Description:
This thesis argues that a socially conservative tendency informed much of George Orwell's commentary between 1934 and 1943, and that the same tendency reflected a general European trend. The main sources of this thesis are a large selection of George Orwell's works and a smaller selection of works by Frantz Fanon, Jose Ortega y Gasset, and Antonio Gramsci. This thesis relies upon Orwell's involvement in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1937 and his embrace of nationalism in 1940 as major …
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Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Bauhs, James Anthony
Partner:
UNT Libraries