Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian by Christopher Lane

By Christopher Lane

This vigorous, obtainable account of old and literary works explains why many Victorians nursed a adversarial imaginative and prescient of guy and society and the way misanthropy--once a method of conveying integrity and justified disdain of society's excesses--turned immoral and quasi-criminal. providing a stunning new point of view at the past, Christopher Lane indicates that the lovers troubling us this day percentage many qualities with our supposedly ethical ancestors.

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