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 19th-century US and French literature. This text examines the destabilizing role and empowering effects of reading in a variety of works
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.
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