Frank Merriwell as Full Back, Or, True to His Colors
Author: Burt L. Standish
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 32
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Author: Burt L. Standish
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 32
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ryan K. Anderson
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2015-09-25
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1610755715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGilbert 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.
Author: Burt L. Standish
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-05
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 3368924230
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Author: Burt L. Standish
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 252
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-28
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 3387087144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Burt L. Standish
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-28
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 3368919415
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Author: Burt L. Standish
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 324
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-08-13
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 3752426012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: Frank Merriwell’s Return to Yale by Burt L. Standish