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