Frank Merriwell in London, Or, The Grip of Doom
Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 1896
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Author : Ryan K. Anderson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : 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.
Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Adventure stories, American
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Author : District of Columbia. Court of Appeals
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Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : District of Columbia. Court of Appeals
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Adventure stories, American
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Author : Burt L. Standish
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 336893564X
Reproduction of the original.
Author : United States. Supreme Court
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Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 1752 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 1925
Category : American drama
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