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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| Language: | English |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Sport, culture & society (University of Arkansas Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Building "will-power"
- An "American and up to date" boys' story
- The Yale spirit
- "She is ... My queen!"
- "Dick is Tin"
- Merriwell's American school of athletic development
- Epilogue : "Merriwell stuff"
- Appendix. the works of Gilbert Patten, Street and Smith titles, and other dime novels.