Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France
- ISBN-10
- 1487505477
- ISBN-13
- 9781487505479
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 408
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-11-08
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Author
- François Proulx
Description
Victims of the Book shows how the adolescent male reader became a subject of grave social concern in late-nineteenth-century France and how a new generation of writers later reworked the novel to subvert cultural norms about masculinity.
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