Frank Merriwell and the fiction of All-American boyhood : the progressive era creation of the schoolboy sports story /

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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 Sm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, Ryan K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2015.
Colección:Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
Temas:
Merriwell, Frank > (Fictitious character)
Merriwell, Frank (Fictitious character)
Sports stories, American > History and criticism.
Children's stories, American > History and criticism.
Sports in literature.
Récits de sports américains > Histoire et critique.
Histoires pour enfants américaines > Histoire et critique.
Sports dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Children's stories, American.
Sports stories, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Building "will-power"
  • An "American and up to date" boys' story
  • The Yale spirit
  • "She is ... My queen!"
  • "Dick is Tin"
  • Merriwell's American school of athletic development
  • Epilogue : "Merriwell stuff"
  • Appendix. the works of Gilbert Patten, Street and Smith titles, and other dime novels.

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