Dangerous Potential of Reading : Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected.

This book examines the role of literacy, reading and books in the lives of protagonists in nineteenth-century American and French literature.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aliaga-Buchenau, Ana-Isabel
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Routledge, 2003.
Subjects:	1800-1899 American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Books and reading in literature. Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century. French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Books and reading > France > History > 19th century. Comparative literature > American and French. Comparative literature > French and American. Power (Social sciences) in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) American fiction Books and reading Books and reading in literature Comparative literature > American and French Comparative literature > French and American French fiction Power (Social sciences) in literature France United States Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Reading and Power in the Nineteenth Century; ~The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom~: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; The Passage to Middle-Class Respectability: Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick; The Road to Revolt: Emile Zola's Germinal; Women, Reading, and Power; The Demonic Underneath the Angelic Little Woman: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women; A Little Woman Gone Astray: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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