Hatred and Civility

出版者:Columbia Univ Pr

作者:Lane, Christopher

页数:224

出版时间:2006-4

价格:$ 31.64

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780231130653

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.