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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Main Author: Proulx, Fran�cois (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Series:University of Toronto romance series
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