CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLOGUE
INTRODUCTION Victorian Hatred, a Social Evil and a Social Good
CHAPTER ONE Bulwer’s Misanthropes and the Limits of Victorian Sympathy
CHAPTER TWO Dickensian Malefactors
CHAPTER THREE Charlotte Brontë on the Pleasure of Hating
CHAPTER FOUR George Eliot and Enmity
CHAPTER FIVE Life Envy in Robert Browning’s Poetry
EPILOGUE Joseph Conrad and the Illusion of Solidarity
NOTES
INDEX