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Why we (still) read Orwell.(George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London)(On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future)(Book review)

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From: College Literature
Date: 20060922
Author:Utell, Janine

Bluemel, Kristin. 2004. George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $59.95 hc. xi + 246 pp.

Gleason, Abbott, Jack Goldsmith, and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds. 2005. On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future. Princeton: Princeton University Press. $55.00 hc. $18.95 sc. xiv + 312 pp.

The 1930s and 1940s in Britain--the peak of Orwell's career--are conceived as a period notable for the sustained intersection of politics and art, for the pursuit of political commitment through literature. A place could be made for ...

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