Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing

AvJ. Taylor

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-01-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:308 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:229
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349431892

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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