Title The "dangerous" potential of reading : readers and the negotiation of power in nineteenth-century narratives / Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau

Published New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 187 pages) Series Literary criticism and cultural theory Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents Chapter 1 Reading and Power in the Nineteenth Century -- chapter 2 "The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom": Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of -- Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of / Frederick Douglass -- chapter 3 The Passage to Middle-Class Respectability -- Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick -- chapter 4 The Road to Revolt -- Emile Zola's Germinal -- chapter 5 Women, Reading, and Power -- chapter 6 The Demonic Underneath the Angelic Little Woman: Louisa May -- Louisa May Alcott's Little Women / Alcott's Little Women -- chapter 7 A Little Woman Gone Astray -- Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-181) and index Notes English Print version record Subject 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) LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction Books and reading Books and reading in literature Comparative literature -- American and French Comparative literature -- French and American French fiction Narration (Rhetoric) Power (Social sciences) in literature France United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0203486080 9780203486085 1135883483 9781135883485 1135883491 9781135883492 1138990590 9781138990593 1280076127 9781280076121

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