The Dangerous Potential of Reading: Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives

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Taylor & Francis, 2003 M10 15 - 224 pages
This book examines the role of literacy, reading and books in the lives of protagonists in nineteenth-century American and French literature.

About the author (2003)

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.

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TitleThe Dangerous Potential of Reading: Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
AuthorAna-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau
PublisherTaylor & Francis, 2003
ISBN0203486080, 9780203486085
Length224 pages
  
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