George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency,9780415968713

George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415968713
ISBN10: 0415968712
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-07-29
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

In its analysis ofAnimal Farm,Burmese Days,Keep the Aspidistra FlyingandNineteen 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

Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Chapter One: On Decency, Doubleness, and Updating Orwell 1(42)
Learning to Write about Orwell
1(10)
Orwell's Double Consciousness
11(10)
Orwell and Race
21(7)
Orwell as "Elastic-Brow"
28(5)
Orwell's Critical Sense
33(4)
Decency versus Hypocrisy in Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four
37(6)
Chapter Two: Hardly Above Suspicion: Hypocrisy, Decency, and Sincerity in Burmese Days 43(26)
Flory as Ideal Candidate
45(4)
Hypocrisy Exposed
49(9)
Dr. Veraswami-Decency Personified
58(4)
Ellis and the Code of the Pukka Sahib
62(4)
Variations on a Theme
66(3)
Chapter Three: The Secret Art of Not Making Good: Gordon Comstock's Childish Narrowness in Keep the Aspidistra Flying 69(24)
Gordon Comstock-The Triumph of Pettiness over Doubleness
71(11)
The Decency of Rosemary Waterlow and the Role of Gender
82(6)
Ravelston-Gordon's Partner in Delusion
88(3)
Decency and Some Conclusions for the Individual
91(2)
Chapter Four: An Absence of Pampering: The Betrayal of the Rebellion and the End of Decency in Animal Farm 93(30)
From 1935 to Nineteen Eighty-Four: Concerns for the Part Become Concerns for the Whole
93(6)
The Rebellion-The Beginning of the End of Decency
99(9)
Consolidating Power and Enforcing the Rules of Indecency
108(3)
Boxer and Decency's Final Demise
111(4)
Decency and Justice-Is Behaving Decently a Mark of Weakness?
115(8)
Chapter Five: The Heresy of Common Sense: The Prohibition of Decency in Nineteen Eighty-Four 123(30)
Winston Smith and the Desire for Decency
127(9)
Julia and the Citizens of Oceania
136(4)
O'Brien-Imposing the Party's Final Vocabulary
140(8)
Optimism ... After a Fashion
148(5)
Conclusion: Decency or Tolerance? 153(8)
Decency as Concrete Utopia
158(3)
Notes 161(24)
Bibliography 185(8)
Index 193

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