This lively, accessible account of works by Edward Bulwer, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Robert Browning, and Joseph Conrad explains why many Victorians nursed a hostile vision of man and society and how misanthropy - once a means of conveying integrity and justified disdain of society's excesses - turned immoral and quasi-criminal. Delivering a surprising new perspective on the past, Christopher Lane shows that the fanatics troubling us today share many qualities with our supposedly moral ancestors.
- ISBN10 0231503903
- ISBN13 9780231503907
- Publish Date 18 April 2006 (first published 8 April 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Columbia University Press
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 224
- Language English