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portada Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-De-Siècle France
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
408
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.1 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm
Weight
0.48 kg.
ISBN13
9781487505479
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Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-De-Siècle France

Francois Proulx (Author) · University of Toronto Press · Hardcover

Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-De-Siècle France - Proulx, Francois

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Synopsis "Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-De-Siècle France"

Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-siècle novel of formation in France. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Novels about and geared toward adolescent male readers were imbued with a deep worry over young Frenchmen's masculinity, as evidenced by titles like Crise de jeunesse (Youth in Crisis, 1897), La Crise virile (Crisis of Virility, 1898), La Vie stérile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen's reading habits. Fin-de-siècle writers responded to this pathologization of reading with a profusion of novels addressed to young male readers, paradoxically proposing their own novels as potential cures. In the early twentieth century, this corpus was critically revisited by a new generation of writers. Victims of the Book shows how André Gide and Marcel Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-siècle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader.

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