Overview

In its analysis of Animal Farm , Burmese Days , Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Nineteen Eighty-Four , this book argues that George Orwell's fiction and non-fiction weigh the benefits and costs of adopting a doubled perspective - in other words, seeing one's own interests in relation to those of others - and illustrate how decency follows from such a perspective. Establishing this relationship within Orwell's work, Anthony Stewart demonstrates how Orwell's characters' ability to treat others decently depends upon the characters' relative capacities for doubleness.

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Author:   Anthony Stewart
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138975149

ISBN 10:   1138975141
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   18 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Chapter One: On Decency, Doubleness, and Updating Orwell Learning to Write about Orwell Orwell’s Double Consciousness Orwell and Race Orwell as “Elastic-Brow” Orwell’s Critical Sense Decency versus Hypocrisy in Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four Chapter Two: Hardly Above Suspicion: Hypocrisy, Decency, and Sincerity in Burmese Days Flory as Ideal Candidate Hypocrisy Exposed Dr. Veraswami—Decency Personified Ellis and the Code of the Pukka Sahib Variations on a Theme Chapter Three: The Secret Art of Not Making Good: Gordon Comstock’s Childish Narrowness in Keep the Aspidistra Flying Gordon Comstock—The Triumph of Pettiness over Doubleness The Decency of Rosemary Waterlow and the Role of Gender Ravelston—Gordon’s Partner in Delusion Decency and Some Conclusions for the Individual Chapter Four: An Absence of Pampering: The Betrayal of the Rebellion and the End of Decency in Animal Farm From 1935 to Nineteen Eighty-Four: Concerns for the Part Become Concerns for the Whole The Rebellion—The Beginning of the End of Decency Consolidating Power and Enforcing the Rules of Indecency Boxer and Decency’s Final Demise Decency and Justice—Is Behaving Decently a Mark of Weakness? Chapter Five: The Heresy of Common Sense: The Prohibition of Decency in Nineteen Eighty-Four Winston Smith and the Desire for Decency Julia and the Citizens of Oceania O’Brien—Imposing the Party’s Final Vocabulary Optimism…After a Fashion Conclusion: Decency or Tolerance? Decency as Concrete Utopia

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Anthony Stewart is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Dalhousie University. His recent publications include ""George Orwell's Elastic Politics"" in English Studies in Canada and ""Penn and Teller Magic: Self, Racial Devaluation, and the Canadian Academy"" in Racism, Eh?, an anthology on race and racism in Canada.

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