TY  - BOOK
AU  - Newsinger,John
TI  - Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left
SN  - 9781786801890;9781786802194
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Literature: history & criticism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Anti-Fascism
KW  - Biography
KW  - British Politics
KW  - Communism
KW  - Feminism
KW  - George Orwell
KW  - History
KW  - Labour Party
KW  - Literature
KW  - Political Ideology
KW  - Political Theory
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Stalinism
KW  - Working Class
N1  - Open Access
N2  - George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood.  Hope Lies in the Proles offers a sympathetic yet critical account of Orwell's political thinking and its continued significance today. John Newsinger explores various aspects of Orwell's politics, detailing Orwell's attempts to change working-class consciousness, considering whether his attitude towards the working class was romantic, realistic or patronising - or all three at different times. He also asks whether Orwell's anti-fascism was eclipsed by his criticism of the Soviet Union, and explores his ambivalent relationship with the Labour Party. Newsinger also breaks important new ground regarding Orwell's shifting views on the USA, and his relationship with the progressive Left and feminism
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ER  -