Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 228 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231130643
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0231130651
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0231503903
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9780231130646
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9780231130653
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9780231503907
Content:
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
Content:
Victorian hatred, a social evil and a social good -- Bulwer's misanthropes and the limits of Victorian sympathy -- Dickensian malefactors -- Charlotte Brontë on the pleasure of hating -- George Eliot and enmity -- Life envy in Robert Browning's poetry -- Joseph Conrad and the illusion of solidarity
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lane, Christopher, 1966- Hatred & civility New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004
Language:
English
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