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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783713003321

Autore

Stewart Anthony <1964-, >

Titolo

George Orwell, doubleness, and the value of decency / / by Anthony Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-92443-0

1-135-92444-9

1-138-97514-1

1-280-07622-4

0-203-48952-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Studies in major literary authors ; ; v. 32

Disciplina

828/.91209

Soggetti

Difference (Psychology) in literature

Conduct of life in literature

Ethics in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; On Decency, Doubleness, and Updating Orwell; Hardly Above Suspicion: Hypocrisy, Decency, and Sincerity in Burmese Days; The Secret Art of Not Making Good: Gordon Comstock's Childish Narrowness in Keep the Aspidistra Flying; An Absence of Pampering: The Betrayal of the Rebellion and the End of Decency in Animal Farm; The Heresy of Common Sense: The Prohibition of Decency in Nineteen Eighty-Four; Conclusion: Decency or Tolerance?; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 a doubled perspective.