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Abstract: George Orwell and Graham Greene's Interwar novels directly reflect the social, political, and psychological issues facing Great Britain after WWI. Greene and Orwell were both products and chroniclers of their time. Social inequality and bias, fears of future international conflict, the defense of democracy, Socialism, labor concerns and unemployment, colonialism and end of empire, British ... read moreeducation and class structure, racism and xenophobia, and the search for a moral framework through ideologies were all subjects documented by Greene and Orwell in their thirties writing. This thesis also analyzes how and why Orwell's work is seen as more historically relevant and what politics and research methodologies inform that assessment. As Orwell and Greenes' historical relevance has been largely defined by their reputations the thesis attempts to explore how those reputations evolved and how publication, criticism, and political exigency have affected their use as historical sources.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2016.
Submitted to the Dept. of History.
Advisor: Howard Malchow.
Committee: Elizabeth Foster, and Julia Genster.
Keywords: History, and European history.read less
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