Author: Burt L. StandishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Frank Merriwell's Courage, Or, True Nerve Against Bluff
Author: Burt L. StandishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Frank Merriwell's Courage, Or, True Nerve Against Bluff
Author: Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood
Author: Ryan K. AndersonPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557286825
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
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 in 1896, but over the years what took shape was a story line that capitalized on middle-class fears about the insidious influence of modern life on the nation’s boys. Merriwell came to symbolize the Progressive Era debate about how sport and school made boys into men. The saga featured the attractive Merriwell distinguishing between “good” and “bad” girls and focused on his squeaky-clean adventures in physical development and mentorship. By the serial’s conclusion, Merriwell had opened a school for “weak and wayward boys” that made him into a figure who taught readers how to approximate his example. In Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood, Anderson treats Tip Top Weekly as a historical artifact, supplementing his reading of its text, illustrations, reader letters, and advertisements with his use of editorial correspondence, memoirs, trade journals, and legal documents. Anderson blends social and cultural history, with the history of business, gender, and sport, along with a general examination of childhood and youth in this fascinating study of how a fictional character was used to promote a homogeneous “normal” American boyhood rooted in an assumed pecking order of class, race, and gender.
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Author: Frank Merriwell's Tricks
Author: Burt L. StandishBibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
Author: Frank Merriwell's Courage
Author: Burt L StandishPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355208006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Frank Merriwell's Fun; Or, Fearless and True
Author: Burt L. StandishPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387087144
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Frank Merriwell’s Bravery
Author: Burt L. StandishPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752422815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Frank Merriwell’s Bravery by Burt L. Standish