Overview
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.
- | Author: Anthony Stewart
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Jul 29, 2003
- | Number of Pages: 216 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0415968712
- | ISBN-13: 9780415968713
