Anthony Stewart

George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135924447
• Artikelnr.: 42983852

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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