Hatred and Civility : : The Antisocial Life in Victorian England / / 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, ear...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]
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Year of Publication:2006
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Illustrations --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Prologue --   |t Introduction: Victorian Hatred, a Social Evil and a Social Good --   |t 1. Bulwer's Misanthropes and the Limits of Victorian Sympathy --   |t 2. Dickensian Malefactors --   |t 3. Charlotte Brontë on the Pleasure of Hating --   |t 4. George Eliot and Enmity --   |t 5. Life Envy in Robert Browning's Poetry --   |t 6. Joseph Conrad and the Illusion of Solidarity --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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