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Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing

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  • © 2003

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  1. Jonathan Taylor

    1. Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Master–Slave Relations, Master–Slave Pacts

    • Jonathan Taylor
    Pages 1-20

  3. Capitalists, Castrators and Criminals: Violent Masters and Slaves in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White

    • Jonathan Taylor
    Pages 21-44

  4. ‘Servants’ Logic’ and Analytical Chemistry: Intellectual Masters and Servants in George Eliot and Charles Dickens

    • Jonathan Taylor
    Pages 45-66

  5. Slaveholders and Democrats: Combined Masters and Slaves in Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens’ American Notes and Frederick Douglass’s Narrative

    • Jonathan Taylor
    Pages 67-115

  6. Heroes, Hero-Worshippers and Jews: Music Masters, Slaves and Servants in Thomas Carlyle, Richard Wagner, George Eliot and George Du Maurier

    • Jonathan Taylor
    Pages 116-157

  7. Stump Orators, Phantasm Captains and Mutual Recognition: Popular Masters and Masterlessness in Dickens’ Hard Times and Thomas Carlyle’s ‘Stump-Orator’

    • Jonathan Taylor
    Pages 158-185

  8. Afterword, After Slavery, After Shooting Niagara

    • Jonathan Taylor
    Pages 186-194

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 195-229
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Taking Hegel's famous " Master-Slave Dialectic " as its starting point, this wide-ranging book examines portrayals of masters, slaves and servants in works by Carlyle, Dickens, Eliot, Collins and others. The questions raised about modern mastery and slavery are pursued in relation to intriguing nineteenth-century figures as the American slave-holder, the musician, the demagogue and the Jew.

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  • Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University, UK

    Jonathan Taylor

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JONATHAN TAYLOR is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University. He also composes music, and has written a radio play about Joseph Emidy, the Cornish composer.

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