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George Orwell and Religion by Michael G. Brennan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is George Orwell and Religion about?
In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his public and private writings - from major works such as Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1984 and Down and Out in Paris and London to his shorter journalism and private letters and journals - George Orwell and Religion is a major reassessment of Orwell's life-long engagement with religion. Exploring Orwell's life and work, Michael Brennan illuminates for the first time how this profound engagement with religion informed the intensely humanitarian spirit of his writings. Michael G. Brennan is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Graham Greene: Fiction, Faith and Authorship (2010). Reviews: “As Brennan's detailed book shows, Orwell's thoughts on religious belief and institutions were complex and sometimes conflicting ... Orwell and Religion convincingly presents Orwell's anti-Catholicism as an exception to his capacity for temperate analysis and self-analysis. Brennan shows how Orwell's readers ought not to overlook the discordant elements in his work.” – T
Who reads George Orwell and Religion?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael G. Brennan
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781472533081
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction