Ana-Isabel Aliaga-BuchenauThe Dangerous Potential of Reading
Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives
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.
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Reading and Power in the
Nineteenth Century 2. The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom: Frederick
Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 3. The Passage to
Middle-Class Respectability: Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick 4. The Road to
Revolt: Emile Zola's Germinal 5. Women, Reading, and Power 6. The Demonic
Underneath the Angelic Little Woman: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women 7. A
Little Woman Gone Astray: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary Conclusion Notes
Bibliography Index
