Hatred and Civility
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Hatred and Civility

The Antisocial Life in Victorian England

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more

Hatred and Civility

The Antisocial Life in Victorian England

About this book

To understand hatred and civility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction. Although the word "Victorian" generally brings to mind images of prudish sexuality and well-heeled snobbery, it has above all become synonymous with self-sacrifice, earnest devotion, and moral rectitude. Yet this idealized version of Victorian England is surprisingly scarce in the period's literature--and its journalism, sermons, poems, and plays--where villains, hypocrites, murderers, and cheats of all types abound.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents 
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Prologue
  10. Introduction: Victorian Hatred, a Social Evil and a Social Good
  11. Chapter 1: Bulwer’s Misanthropes and the Limits of Victorian Sympathy
  12. Chapter 2: Dickensian Malefactors
  13. Chapter 3: Charlotte Brontë on the Pleasure of Hating
  14. Chapter 4: George Eliot and Enmity
  15. Chapter 5: Life Envy in Robert Browning’s Poetry
  16. Epilogue: Joseph Conrad and the Illusion of Solidarity
  17. Notes
  18. Index