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The Dangerous Potential of Reading: Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives

The Dangerous Potential of Reading: Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives

Aliaga-Buchenau, Ana-Isabel

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Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1138990590
ISBN13: 9781138990593
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 18 2016
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The development of a mass readership, a mass market for books, and a prominent status of reading and readers is reflected in the central role of literacy, reading, and books in the lives of protagonists in nineteenth-century American and French literature. In this book, Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau examines the destabilizing role of reading in the works of Frederick Douglass, Horatio Alger, Emile Zola, Louisa May Alcott, and Gustave Flaubert. This book-the first to study nineteenth-century protagonists across lines of nationality, class, and gender-demonstrates the empowering effects of reading for Douglass, Alger's Ragged Dick, Zola's Etienne, Alcott's Jo, and Flaubert's Emma.

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