Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story
(Part of the Sport, Culture & Society Series Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1557286825
ISBN13:9781557286826
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:University of Arkansas Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"
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