TY - BOOK ID - 85771072 TI - Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England PY - 2004 SN - 0231503903 0231130643 0231130651 PB - Columbia University Press DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Misanthropy in literature. KW - Literature and society KW - Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. KW - Interpersonal relations in literature. KW - Manners and customs in literature. KW - Courtesy in literature. KW - Hate in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - England KW - Great Britain KW - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85771072 AB - 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. ER -