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HATRED AND CIVILITY
THE ANTISOCIAL LIFE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND |
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Christopher Lane |
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ISBN 10: |
0231130651 |
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9780231130653 |
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 March, 2006 |
Pages: |
224 |
Description: |
Offering an account of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Robert Browning, and Joseph Conrad, this title explains why many Victorians nursed a hostile vision of man and society and how misanthropy - once a means of conveying integrity and justified disdain of society's excesses - turned immoral and quasi-criminal. |
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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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23 illus. |
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US |
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Columbia University Press |
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