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The "Dangerous" Potential of Reading: Readers and the Negotiation of Power in Nineteenth-Century Narratives

by Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau. 190 pgs.

Contributors:

   Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau

Publisher:

   Routledge

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  2003

	Contents
	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
	INTRODUCTION	xi
	CHAPTER ONE Reading and Power in the Nineteenth Century	3
	CHAPTER TWO “The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom”: Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	13
	CHAPTER THREE The Passage to Middle-Class Respectability: Horatio Alger’s Ragged Dick	23
	CHAPTER FOUR The Road to Revolt: Emile Zola’s Germinal	33
	CHAPTER FIVE Women, Reading, and Power	45
	CHAPTER SIX The Demonic Underneath the Angelic Little Woman: Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women	69
	CHAPTER SEVEN A Little Woman Gone Astray: Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary	97
	CONCLUSION	125
	NOTES	129
	BIBLIOGRAPHY	167
	INDEX	183

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