Chapter 18 The Centenarian, Our Contemporary

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction Afterthoughts on His Afterlives 1
5. Part One If the Mantle Fits . . .
6. Chapter 1 Virtuous Men? or “The American Orwell” (I) 13
7. Chapter 2 “Dear Dwight,” or “The American Orwell” (II) 29
8. Chapter 3 “St. Irving”? or “The American Orwell” (III) 55
9. Chapter 4 Fellow Contrarians? or “The (Anglo-)American Orwell” (IV) 77
10. Chapter 5 “True Patriot and Traditionalist,” or “The (Hungarian-)American Orwell” (V) 97
11. Part Two Politics and the German Language
12. Chapter 6 The (Un-rosy) State of Orwellian Unlearning 119
13. Chapter 7 Books That Led to Miniluv 135
14. Chapter 8 2 + 2 = 5? 143
15. Chapter 9 Behind the Wall, or How the Eurasian Reich Viewed Oceania 155
16. Chapter 10 Revenge of the Thought Police 177
17. Part Three The Un(der)examined Orwell
18. Chapter 11 Did Papa Rescue St. George? 195
19. Chapter 12 Big Rock (Sugar)candy Mountain? 225
20. Chapter 13 Literacy and the English Language 245
21. Chapter 14 George Orwell, Literary Theorist? 253
22. Chapter 15 The Architectonics of Room 101 273
23. Chapter 16 The Review Orwell Never Wrote? 289
24. Chapter 17 The Life Orwell Never Lived? 297
25. Chapter 18 The Centenarian, Our Contemporary 307
26. Conclusion If He Had Lived . . . 318
27. Notes 329
28. Index 389