عنوان

Mastery and slavery in Victorian writing /

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Mastery and slavery in Victorian writing /

[Book]

Jonathan Taylor.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2003.

x, 229 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.

Introduction: Master-slave relations, master-slave pacts -- 1. Capitalists, castrators and criminals: violent masters and slaves in Wilkie Collins' The woman in white -- 2. 'Servants' logic' and analytical chemistry: intellectual masters and servants in George Eliot and Charles Dickens -- 3. Slaveholders and democrats: combined masters and slaves in Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens' American notes and Frederick Douglass's Narrative -- 4. Heroes, hero-worshippers and Jews: music masters, slaves and servants in Thomas Carlyle, Richard Wagner, George Eliot and George Du Maurier -- 5. Stump orators, phantasm captains and mutual recognition: popular masters and masterlessness in Dickens' Hard times and Thomas Carlyle's 'Stump-orator' -- Afterword: After slavery, after shooting Niagara.

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Starting with Hegel's thoughts on hierarchical relations, Taylor (English, Loughborough U., Britain) explores literary representations of master-slave and master-servant relationships in works by Thomas Carlyle and others. He takes such relationships by type: violent, intellectual, combined, music, and popular. Other authors he considers are Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Richard Wagner. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

English prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

Household employees in literature.

Master and servant in literature.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

Slavery in literature.

English fiction.

English prose literature.

Household employees in literature.

Master and servant in literature.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Taylor, Jonathan,1973-

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