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03280aam a22004458i 4500 001 D092822A471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 190318s2019 onca b 001 0 eng 020 $a 9781487505479 020 $a 1487505477 035 $a (OCoLC)1089963104 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d LTSCA $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a e-fr--- 050 4 $a PQ653 P76x 2019 055 0 $a PQ653 $b .P76 2019 082 0 $a 843/.809353 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Proulx, François $e author. 245 10 $a Victims of the book : $b reading and masculinity in fin-de-sieÌcle France / $c François Proulx. 264 1 $a Toronto ; $b University of Toronto Press, $c 2019. 300 $a vi, 390 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a University of Toronto romance series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Victims of the Book uncovers a long-neglected but once widespread subgenre: the fin-de-sieÌcle novel of formation in France. 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 steÌrile (A Sterile Life, 1892), and La Mortelle Impuissance (Deadly Impotence, 1903). In this book, François Proulx examines a wide panorama of these novels, many of which have rarely been studied, as well as polemical essays, pedagogical articles, and medical treatises on the perceived threats posed by young Frenchmen's reading habits. Against this cultural backdrop, he illuminates all that was at stake in representations of the male reader by prominent novelists of the period, including Jules ValleÌs, Paul Bourget, Maurice BarreÌs, AndreÌ Gide, and Marcel Proust."-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "In the final decades of the nineteenth century, social commentators insistently characterized excessive reading as an emasculating illness that afflicted French youth. Fin-de-sieÌcle 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 Gide and Proust in particular reworked the fin-de-sieÌcle paradox to subvert cultural norms about literature and masculinity, proposing instead a queer pact between writer and reader."-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 650 0 $a French fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z France $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Masculinity in literature. 830 0 $a University of Toronto romance series 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317015157.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200204023301.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D092822A471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search