Dangerous Potential of Reading
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American and French novels
Aunt March
Author_Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau
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class and power dynamics
columbian
Columbian Orator
comparative literary analysis
Demonic Aspects
Demonic Woman
dick
douglass
Douglass's Life
Douglass's Narrative
Douglass’s Life
Douglass’s Narrative
Emma Dreams
Emma's Reading
Emma’s Reading
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fiction
Follow
frederick
gender and reading studies
horatio
Horatio Alger Myth
Horatio Alger's Hero
Horatio Alger’s Hero
Improper Feminine
Jo March
Jo's Writing
Jo’s Writing
La Maheude
literacy and social mobility
Madame Bovary
Makeup
Man's Son's Group
Man’s Son’s Group
Middle Class Benefactors
Mulatto
nineteenth-century literature
orator
Professor Bhaer
ragged
reading as empowerment in literature
sensation
Sensation Fiction
Women's Reading
Women’s Reading
Writing Sensation Fiction
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138990593
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
