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Bluemel, Kristin. George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London.(Book review)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20070922
Author:Laskowski, William

BLUEMEL, KRISTIN. George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 246 pp. $65.00.

The reputation of some writers is based on the perceived rectitude of their views or of their lives, so when the moral compass of rectitude takes a new alignment, or more facts about the authors' lives are uncovered, the reputation can be correspondingly elevated or depressed. Even though George Orwell's reputation has fallen somewhat from its high-water mark during the period from his death to the publication of his Collected ...

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