Hatred and Civility : : The Antisocial Life in Victorian England / / Christopher Lane.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lane, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 23 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue --; Introduction: Victorian Hatred, a Social Evil and a Social Good --; 1. Bulwer's Misanthropes and the Limits of Victorian Sympathy --; 2. Dickensian Malefactors --; 3. Charlotte Brontë on the Pleasure of Hating --; 4. George Eliot and Enmity --; 5. Life Envy in Robert Browning's Poetry --; 6. Joseph Conrad and the Illusion of Solidarity --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231503907; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/lane13064
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christopher Lane.

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.