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.

• Introduction Capitalists, Castrators and Criminals: Violent Masters and Slaves in Wilkie Collins's The Women in White 'Servants' Logic and Analytical Chemistry; Intellectual Masters and Servants in George Eliot and Charles Dickens Slaveholders and Democrats: Combined Masters and Slaves in Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens's American Notes and Frederick Douglass's Narrative Heroes, Hero-Worshippers and Jews: Music Masters, Slaves and Servants in Thomas Carlyle, Richard Wagner, George Eliot and George Du Maurier Stump Orators, Phantasm Captains and Mutual Recognition: Popular Masters and Masterlessness in Dickens's Hard Times and Thomas Carlyle's Stump-Orator Afterword, After Slavery, After Shooting Niagara Bibliography Endnotes Index