Hatred and Civility

The Antisocial Life in Victorian England

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, British
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Author: Christopher Lane ISBN: 9780231503907
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: April 18, 2006
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Christopher Lane
ISBN: 9780231503907
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: April 18, 2006
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

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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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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