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The fortune of 18th and 19th century French literature during the development of the Argentine publishing field (1920-1955) is surprisingly unstable due to strong editorial modifications that annul the canonic treatment usually reserved to books considered “classics". As we shall see in popular editions of Madame Bovary and Salammbô, these modifications either introduce the political and economical context in the novels, or materialize, in the paratext, internal tensions of the text. This perspective broadens, in the line of Donald McKenzie's work, the theoretical scope, as it considers the book (and not only the text) as an indicator of meaning, thus transforming editorial devices into unexpected readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The inclusion of Salvadora Medina Onrubia (La Plata, 1894-Buenos Aires, 1971) in the secondary school literary canon constitutes one possible way of working on the issue of genre as teaching content. In this article, we study the convergence of feminine and anarchist assertions in the narrative texts of this author, the intent of her discourse and the reading public to whom it is addressed. Secondly, we evaluate the possibility of including Salvadora Medina Onrubia's fiction in the reading repertoire for secondary education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]