Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/10/2003
The development of a mass readership, a mass market for books and the 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780415968331
- 9780415968331
- Category:
- Humanities
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 15-10-2003
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 202
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x15.24mm
- Weight:
- 0.53kg
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