2. Representing the Fin-de-Siècle Reader: Exhaustion, Deviation, Impotence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Note on Translations and Previously Published Material ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: Reading Anxieties 1
7. Part I: Youth in Crisis
8. Introduction 17
9. 1. Contagions and Cures 25
10. 2. Representing the Fin-de-Siècle Reader: Exhaustion, Deviation, Impotence 56
11. Part II: The Three Dangers of Literature
12. Introduction 87
13. 3. Vallès, the Déclassé, and the Pitfalls of Education 93
14. 4. Bourget, the Chambige Affair, and the Queer Seductions of the Novel 115
15. 5. Barrès and the Ghosts of Balzacian Ambition 149
16. Part III: Forming the Reader
17. Introduction 169
18. 6. Martin du Gard, Tinan, and the Uses of Irony 176
19. 7. Gide and the Novel as Formation 197
20. 8. Proust and the Fantasy of Readerly Recognition 211
21. Epilogue: The Afterlives of Bad Masters 244
22. Notes 247
23. Bibliography 357
24. Index 377