Orwell and Gissing

By:

Mark Connelly

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Hardback

Series:

American University Studies Series 4: English Language and Literature

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Three generations of critics have commented on the parallels between George Orwell and his favorite novelist, George Gissing. I am a great fan of his, Orwell wrote in 1948, proclaiming that England has produced very few better novelists. This in-depth study reveals that Orwell drew heavily on the Gissing novels he admired in shaping his own. Gissing's New Grub Street and The Odd Women directly influenced Orwell's Depression-era novels Keep the Aspidstra Flying and A Clergyman's Daughter. Even Orwell's most imaginative work, Animal Farm, mirrors Gissing's own novel of a failed Socialist Utopia, Demos. Gissing was Orwell's role model and alter ego. Gissing provided him with a touchstone to his beliefs, his pessimism, his love of Dickens and cozy corners, his suspicion of progress, his restless sexuality. To understand Orwell fully, one must first read Gissing.

Author Biography:

The Author: Born in Philadelphia, Mark Connelly graduated from Carroll College after studying at the University of London and touring the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. He received an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he completed his Ph.D. in English in 1984. His previous books include The Diminished Self: Orwell and the Loss of Freedom and The Sundance Reader. He is currently an English instructor at Milwaukee Area Technical College where he designs and teaches telecourses for College of the Air.

Release date Australia

October 1st, 1997

Author

Mark Connelly

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

126

Series

American University Studies Series 4: English Language and Literature

ISBN-13

9780820433301

Product ID

13303069

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