Download or read book Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All American Boyhood written by Ryan K. Anderson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Chums written by Burt L. Standish and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s School Days written by Burt L Standish and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting adventures of Frank Merriwell and his friends at the Yale Preparatory School. This book is a must-read for anyone who loves stories of sportsmanship, friendship, and daring feats of adventure. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Dime Novel Mormons written by Michael Austin and published by Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dime novels probably did more than any other kind of book to turn lower- and middle-class Americans into both book owners and book readers. It's hard to tell just how many of these dime novels featured Mormons, but the dime-novel sterotypes of Mormons worked their way into much of the more-respectable literature of the day and influenced the way American culture has interacted with Mormonism ever since. For this volume, four full-length dime novels have been chosen to represent different aspects of the Mormon image in dime novels... The often lurid and scandalous portrayals of Mormons in these dime novels haed consequences for the relationship between Mormons and the rest of the United States. They would represent reality for millions of people, and the basic portrayals found their way into more serious literature. Understanding how these stereotypes were created and first employed can help us understand many things about the way Mormonism has always functioned in American culture."--Back cover.

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Danger written by Burt L. Standish and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Reward written by Burt L. Standish and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frank Merriwell's Reward" by Burt L. Standish. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book Time for Andrew written by Mary Downing Hahn and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he goes to spend the summer with his great-aunt in the family's old house, eleven-year-old Drew is drawn eighty years into the past to trade places with his great-great-uncle who is dying of diptheria.

Download or read book Ball Tales written by Michelle Nolan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for all age levels from early dime novels through the 1960s. Chapters cover dime novel heroes Frank and Dick Merriwell; the explosion of sports novels before World War II and its influence on the authors who later wrote for baby boom readers; how sports novels persisted during the Great Depression; the rise and decline of sports pulps; why sports comics failed; postwar heroes Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett; the lack of sports fiction for females; Duane Decker's Blue Sox books; and the classic John R. Tunis novels. Appendices list sports pulp titles and comic books featuring sports fiction.

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Return to Yale written by Burt Standish and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s New Comedian or The Rise of a Star written by Burt Standish and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Duel Or For Right and Honor written by Burt L. Standish and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Champions or All in the Game written by Burt Standish and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Faith written by Burt L. Standish and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Son written by Burt L. Standish and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-09-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because he insisted on a certain condition in our agreement. Because he insisted that, after a lapse of time and at the completion of the Mexican railroad, I should accept a third interest in the San Pablo Mine. I fought against it. I told him it was not right. I even threatened to quit and have nothing to do with the work he wished me to perform. He was inexorable, unyielding. I pointed out that my service was not worth what he offered. I showed him that he could get experienced and expert men to do the work for an infinitesimal part of what he proposed to give me. He asserted that he was not giving me this merely for my labor, but on account of past favors and things I had done for him which could not be paid for in money. Even though I did not permit him to force me into consenting to take this share of his mine, I finally remained and did my best. I arrived in Bloomfield three days ago. The day I reached here he placed a paper in my hands. That paper makes me one-third owner of the San Pablo. I'm rich, Elsie. The future is assured for me and for you. That very day I went to the town clerk and had another paper made out. Here it is.”...FROM THE BOOKS.

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Cruise written by Burt L. Standish and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Frank Merriwell’s Cruise by Burt L. Standish

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Own Company Or Barnstorming in the Middle West written by Burt L. Standish and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Frank Merriwell s Trust Or Never Say Die written by Burt L. Standish and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frank Merriwell's Trust; Or, Never Say Die" by Burt L. Standish. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.