Book Cover; Title; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Reading and Power in the Nineteenth Century; ̃The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom̃: 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
Summary
This book examines the role of literacy, reading and books in the lives of protagonists in nineteenth-century American and French literature
