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Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England
Hatred and Civility The Antisocial Life in Victorian England Author:Christopher Lane Today we grapple with numerous kinds of hatred, turning past ages into models of civility. However, by probing cultural history and the works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontė, George Eliot, Robert Browning, and Joseph Conrad, Christopher Lane cogently undermines the myth of Victorian respectability. In lively, provocati... more »ve prose, Hatred and Civility invites conservatives and radicals alike to rethink their assumptions about our supposedly moral precursors.« less