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