Hatred and Civility
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Hatred and Civility

The Antisocial Life in Victorian England

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Hatred and Civility

The Antisocial Life in Victorian England

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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