Frank Merriwell's "father". An Autobiography by Gilbert Patten, "Burt L. Standish". Edited by Harriet Hinsdale, Assisted by Tony London. [With Portraits.].
Title | Frank Merriwell's "father". An Autobiography by Gilbert Patten, "Burt L. Standish". Edited by Harriet Hinsdale, Assisted by Tony London. [With Portraits.]. PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert PATTEN |
Publisher | |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 1964 |
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Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood
Title | Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan K. Anderson |
Publisher | University of Arkansas Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2015-09-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1557286825 |
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.
Frank Merriwell's "Father"
Title | Frank Merriwell's "Father" PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Patten |
Publisher | |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780806106137 |
The Booklover's Answer
Title | The Booklover's Answer PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Book collecting |
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Title | General Catalogue of Printed Books PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Department of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | English imprints |
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American Book Publishing Record
Title | American Book Publishing Record PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1558 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Title | American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977 PDF eBook |
Author | R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography |
Publisher | |
Pages | 2352 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | United States |
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