ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|26 pages
Hardly Above Suspicion: Hypocrisy, Decency, and Sincerity in Burmese Days
Hypocrisy, Decency, and Sincerity in Burmese
chapter 3|24 pages
The Secret Art of Not Making Good: Gordon Comstock’s Childish Narrowness in Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Gordon Comstock’s Childish Narrowness in
chapter 4|30 pages
An Absence of Pampering
The Betrayal of the Rebellion and the End of Decency in Animal Farm
chapter 5|30 pages
The Heresy of Common Sense: The Prohibition of Decency in Nineteen
The Prohibition of Decency in Nineteen