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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Dedicatory Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction Abbott
Part I: Politics and the Literary Imagination
A Defense of Poesy (The Treatise of Julia)
Doublespeak and the Minority of One
Of Beasts and Men: Orwell on Beastliness
Does Literature Work as Social Science? The Case of George Orwell
Part II: Truth, Objectivity, and Propaganda
Puritanism and Power Politics during the Cold War: George Orwell and Historical Objectivity
Rorty and Orwell on Truth
From Ingsoc and Newspeak to Amcap, Amerigood, and Marketspeak
Part III: Political Coercion
Mind Control in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four: Fictional Concepts Become Operational Realities in Jim Jones’s Jungle Experiment
Whom Do You Trust? What Do You Count On?
Part IV: Technology and Privacy
Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire
On the Internet and the Benign Invasions of Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Self-Preventing Prophecy; or, How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow’s Perils
Part V: Sex and Politics
Sexual Freedom and Political Freedom
Sex, Law, Power, and Community
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Catholicism, and the Meaning of Human Sexuality
Conclusion
The Death of Pity: Orwell and American Political Life
Contributors
Index
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