Hatred and Civility - The Antisocial life in Victorian England

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI PROLOGUE XIII INTRODUCTION Victorian Hatred, a Social Evil and a Social Good 1(33) CHAPTER ONE Bulwer's Misanthropes and the Limits of Victorian Sympathy 34(25) CHAPTER TWO Dickensian Malefactors 59(26) CHAPTER THREE Charlotte Bronte on the Pleasure of Hating 85(22) CHAPTER FOUR George Eliot and Enmity 107(29) CHAPTER FIVE Life Envy in Robert Browning's Poetry 136(25) EPILOGUE Joseph Conrad and the Illusion of Solidarity 161(14) NOTES 175(40) INDEX 215