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Hatred & civility [[electronic resource] ] : the antisocial life in Victorian England / / Christopher Lane



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Autore: Lane Christopher <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Hatred & civility [[electronic resource] ] : the antisocial life in Victorian England / / Christopher Lane Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Columbia University Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
Disciplina: 823/.809353
Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Misanthropy in literature
Literature and society - England - History - 19th century
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
Interpersonal relations in literature
Manners and customs in literature
Courtesy in literature
Hate in literature
Soggetto geografico: England Social life and customs 19th century
Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Hatred & civility  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-231-50390-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777006503321
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