Victims of the book : reading and masculinity in fin-de-si�ecle France /
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Fin-de-si�ecle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, para...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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Series: | University of Toronto romance series
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