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Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood : The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2015
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| Colección: | Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| 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.