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The Dangerous Potential of Reading

Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives
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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.

Author Biography:

Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she is working on a comparative study of ficitional representations of German immigration to Mexico and the United States.
Release date Australia
November 18th, 2016
Pages
202
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
ISBN-13
9781138990593
Product ID
25735894

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