G.K. Chesterton's Literary Influence on George Orwell : a Surprising Irony.

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: A Critical Examination of Orwell's References to Chesterton; Chapter 2: Father Brown in 1984: Chestertonian Presences in the Novels of Orwell; Chapter 3: 'Who Is to Be Master?': Chesterton and Orwell as Critics of Public Language Use; Chapter 4: 'All Propaganda Is Lies': A Comparison of the Wartime Propaganda of Chesterton and Orwell; Chapter 5: The Centrality of Politics: Nationalism, Distributism and the Symbolic Figure of Dickens.

Chapter 6: 'The Past Is a Foreign Country': Postcolonial, Imperial and Historical AlterityConclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Luke Seaber is the first author to study the influence of G.K. Chesterton on George Orwell. The book analyzes how Chesteron influenced Orwell's novels and how Orwell misrepresented Chesterton because he was embarrassed by this fact. Seaber takes the Orwell-Chesterton relationship one step further by looking at the similarities found within each author's use political language, war-time propaganda, and the symbolism of Dickens. However, Seaber concludes by taking a different direction. Rather than solely illustrating their similarities, Seaber juxtaposes Orwell and Chesterton's literary techniq.

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