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Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story (Sport, Culture, and Society)
Ryan K. Anderson
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Description for Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story (Sport, Culture, and Society)
Paperback. Series: Sport, culture & society. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; JFD; JFSJ2; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwell’s adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the hero in the dime novel Tip Top Weekly in1896, but over the years what took shape was a story line that capitalized on middle-class fears about the insidious influence of modern life ... Read more
Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwell’s adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the hero in the dime novel Tip Top Weekly in1896, but over the years what took shape was a story line that capitalized on middle-class fears about the insidious influence of modern life ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Series
Sport, Culture & Society
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557286826
SKU
V9781557286826
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About Ryan K. Anderson
Ryan K. Anderson is associate professor of history and the Americanstudies coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
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