As one of the first English novelists to employ "stream of consciousness" as a narrative technique, Dorothy Richardson ranks among modernism's most important experimentalists, yet her epic autobiographical novel "Pilgrimage" has rarely received the kind of attention given to the writings of her contemporaries James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust.
Kristin Bluemel's study explores the relationship between experimental forms and oppositional politics in "Pilgrimage," demonstrating how the novel challenged the literary conventions and cultural expectations of the late-Victorian and...
As one of the first English novelists to employ "stream of consciousness" as a narrative technique, Dorothy Richardson ranks among modernism's most...
George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics celebrates the lives, literature, and politics of a group of four "radical eccentrics"--the Tory anarchist poet Stevie Smith, the Marxist Indian nationalist Mulk Raj Anand, and the beautiful socialist bohemian Inez Holden--who formed a friendly circle around the famously radical and eccentric George Orwell. Demonstrating that Smith, Anand, and Holden matter for literary history just as they mattered for Orwell, this book gives name and shape to a neglected movement within interwar and wartime English writing. It focuses on the lives and texts of Smith,...
George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics celebrates the lives, literature, and politics of a group of four "radical eccentrics"--the Tory anarchist po...
