Modernists and the New Millennium: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Orwell, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway

This article reviews two books, Modernity and Progress: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Orwell, by Ronald Berman, and George Orwell: Into the Twenty-First Century , edited by Thomas Cushman and John Rodden. Berman's book focuses on the three authors' presentation of progress and time and their relation to technological and social progress of the early twentieth century. Cushman and Rodden's anthology looks back on Orwell from the 100th anniversary of his birth and includes essays that encompass all major aspects of his life and works.