Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood
Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood

Author: Ryan K. Anderson

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2015-09-09

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1557286825

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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 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 Triumph; Or, the Disappearance of Felicia
Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, the Disappearance of Felicia

Author: Standish Burt L

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781318038220

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Frank Merriwell's Triumph
Frank Merriwell's Triumph

Author: Burt L Standish

Publisher: Iboo Press House

Published: 2020-09-12

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781642262902

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iBoo uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work. We preserve the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. All THE WORLD'S POPULAR CLASSICS are unabridged (100% Original content), designed with a nice cover and a large font that's easy to read.

Frank Merriwell's Triumph - The Disappearance of Felicia - The Original Classic Edition
Frank Merriwell's Triumph - The Disappearance of Felicia - The Original Classic Edition

Author: Burt L. Standish

Publisher: Emereo Publishing

Published: 2013-03-18

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781486449057

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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Frank Merriwell's Triumph - The Disappearance of Felicia. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Burt L. Standish, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Frank Merriwell's Triumph - The Disappearance of Felicia in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Frank Merriwell's Triumph - The Disappearance of Felicia: Look inside the book: I have forgotten the name of the village where I found him; but the people were getting much excited, for he had stated that at a certain time he would show them what he could do. ...Later, when little Abe and Cap’n Wiley were sleeping and 29 Worthington had sunk into troubled slumber, through which he muttered and moaned, Frank and Bart sat in the tent and examined the map by the light of a small lantern. ...“But the fact that mysterious men have been prowling around here and one of them has secured the map seems to indicate there are others who are searching for Benson Clark’s lost claim. About Burt L. Standish, the Author: William George 'Gilbert' Patten (October 25, 1866 – January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. ...4 He wrote westerns with the pen name Wyoming Bill, but is best known for his sporting stories in the Frank Merriwell series, written as Burt L.

Frank Merriwell's Brother Or the Greatest Triumph of All (Classic Reprint)
Frank Merriwell's Brother Or the Greatest Triumph of All (Classic Reprint)

Author: Burt L. Standish

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-29

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780484276481

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Excerpt from Frank Merriwell's Brother or the Greatest Triumph of All From all sides they leaped upon him, clutched him, surrounded him, hemmed him in. There were exactly thirteen of them, and he was alone and unarmed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.