Literature and Politics Pushing the World in Certain Directions

Summary: George Orwell argued that one of the four great motives for a prose writer was the desire 'to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other people's idea of the kind of society that they should strive after'. This book contains exciting new work by established and emerging scholars that explores political literature over the last century and a half. It shows how, from The Communist Manifesto to the dystopian future of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, writers have attempted to alter p ...

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ISBN: 9781443836036 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1443836036 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1443835749
ISBN: 9781443835749
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (237 p.)
Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.