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.
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
