Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England

Christopher Lane

Paper, 224 pages, 23 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13065-3
$24.50 / £14.50

February, 2004
Cloth, 224 pages, 23 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13064-6
$75.00 / £44.00

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 Brontë, George Eliot, Robert Browning, and Joseph Conrad, Lane cogently undermines the myth of Victorian respectability. In lively, provocative prose, Hatred and Civility invites conservatives and radicals alike to rethink their assumptions about our supposedly moral precursors.

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature

About the Author

Christopher Lane is professor of English at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Ruling Passion and The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Masculinity and the editor of The Psychoanalysis of Race (Columbia, 1998).

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