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...

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Main Author:	Anderson, Ryan K. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2015.
Series:	Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
Subjects:	Merriwell, Frank (Fictitious character) Sports stories, American > History and criticism. Children's stories, American > History and criticism. Sports in literature. Electronic books.