Orwellspeak
Julian Symons, 9 November 1989
The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St George’ Orwell
by John Rodden.
Oxford, 478 pp., £22.50, October 1989,0 19 503954 8 Show More
by John Rodden.
Oxford, 478 pp., £22.50, October 1989,
“... a novel approach to popular culture, but they seemed enjoyable lightweight pieces. When Professor Rodden says that between 1936 and 1939 ‘Orwell’s reputation quickly expanded,’ instancing the large sales of The Road to Wigan Pier, and that ‘for the first time the “Orwell persona” was at issue,’ he is simply mistaken, in part no doubt because he ... ”
