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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. This lively, accessible account of works dy Edward Bulwer, Charles Dickens, Charlotte, Brontë, George Eliot, Robert Browning, and Joseph Conrad explains why many Victorians nursed a hostile vision of man and society, and how in their hands misanthropy became immoral.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Victorian Hatred, a Social Evil and a Social Good Bulwer's Misanthropes and the Limits of Victorian Sympathy Dickensian Malefactors Charlotte Bronta on the Pleasure of Hating George Eliot and Enmity Life Envy in Robert Browning's Poetry Epilogue: Joseph Conrad and the Illusion of Solidarity
