Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance.

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Liberal Civilisation and its Discontents: Evil, Barbarism and Empire; T.Crook , R.Gill  & B.Taithe PART I: METROPOLITAN EVILS Evil in Question: The Victorian Social and the Politics of Prostitution, 1830-1900; T.Crook Terror, Spectacle and the Press: Anarchist Outrage in Edwardian England; D.Speicher 'And I am the God of Destruction!': Fu Manchu and the Construction of Asiatic Evil in the Novels of Arthur Sarsfield Ward, 1912-1939; A.Taylor PART II: IMPERIAL EVILS The Politics of Italianism: Reynolds's Newspaper, the Indian Mutiny, and the Radical Critique of Liberal Imperialism in Mid-Victorian Britain; E.F.Biagini The Victorian Lexicon of Evil: Frederic Harrison, the Positivists and the Language of International Politics; H.S. Jones PART III: GEOPOLITICS OF EVIL Evil, Liberalism and the Imperial Designs of the Catholic Church, 1867-1905; B.Taithe 'Now I have seen evil, and I cannot be silent about it': Arnold J. Toynbee and his Encounters with Atrocity, 1915-1923; R.Gill Atrocity Narratives and Inter-Imperial Rivalry: Britain, Germany and the Treatment of 'Native Races', 1904-1939; C.Twomey PART IV: AGENTS OF EVIL Conrad's Horror: Heart of Darkness and the Imaginary of Power; T.Osborne The Lives of Others: The Defeat of Evil or the Evil of Defeat?; S.McCracken Islam, Violence and the New Barbarism; T.Jacoby Index