Download or read book Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing written by J. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.