Description and Objectives

We will be reading much of Orwell’s essays, fiction, criticism, and journals. We will give special attention to Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and how his other works manifest a similar critique of all forms of totalitarianism, communism, and fascism.

Textbooks

Our texts will be: Orwell Essays: Introduction by John Carey (Everyman Library); and 1984.

Course Requirements

Daily readings; class presentations; blue books exams every two weeks.

Successful Students

If you come to each class brimming with questions about the texts we are studying, you will flourish in all things Orwell.