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George Orwell, Doubleness, and the Value of Decency
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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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- ISBN-13: 9781138975149
- ISBN-10: 1138975141
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: December 2015
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.46 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 216
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