George Orwell and Religion

by Brennan, Michael G.

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FC -- Half title -- Also Available from Bloomsbury -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Religion and 'Saint George' -- 1 Educating Eric Blair and Burmese Days -- Family religious influences and Sunnylands Catholic Convent School (1903-11) -- St Cyprian's, Eastbourne, and Eton College, Windsor (1911-21) -- Burma (1922-7) and Burmese Days (1934) -- 2 Paris and London -- Eric Blair as a social and religious commentator (1927-32) -- Eric Blair becomes George Orwell, and Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

3 A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and The Road to Wigan Pier -- A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) and 'Anglican atheists' -- Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) -- The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) -- 4 Homage to Catalonia, Coming Up For Air and the Outbreak of War -- Homage to Catalonia (1938) -- Marrakech and Coming Up For Air (1939) -- The outbreak of war -- Inside the Whale (1940) -- 5 The Second World War -- The Lion and the Unicorn (1941) and the Second World War (1941-2) -- 1943: A wasted year -- 1944: A productive year -- 6 1945-6 and Animal Farm -- 1945: Anti-Semitism

Christianity, Communism and Animal Farm (1945) -- 1946: Secular or Christian Socialism, anti-Semitism and pamphleteering -- 7 1947-9 and Nineteen Eighty-Four -- 1947-9 -- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and its precursors -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index