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ON NOT BECOMING A HEROINE: LIND AI-YUA ND CUIY ING-YING ANN WALTNER Published by: The University of Chicago Press Why and how people read fiction is an issue that has increasingly come under the scrutiny of Western literary critics. In her recent Becoming a Heroine, Rachel M. Brownstein suggests ways in which fiction may serve a special role in shaping an adolescent girls expectations of the future .The fiction Brownstein discusses is chiefly nineteenth-century English novels; the readers she discusses are twentieth-century American adolescents. The novels of Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope,