The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of 'St. George' Orwell

by John Rodden

Book Overview

Lionel Trilling memorialized him as "a virtuous man." To Arthur Koestler his life was "a rebel's progress." Irving Howe called him "my intellectual hero"; and V.S. Pritchett eulogized him as a "saint" and the "conscience of his generation." Since his death in 1950, George Orwell has served as a personal and intellectual model for countless writers across the political spectrum, ranging from the New Left to the New York intellectuals to the National...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195067118
• ISBN13: 9780195067118
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 9.0"