Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-american Boyhood - The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story

Informationen zum Autor Ryan K. Anderson is associate professor of history and the American studies coordinator at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Klappentext Gilbert Patten made a career of generating serialized stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. This study 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan K Anderson, Ryan K. Anderson
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781557286826
• ISBN: 978-1-55728-682-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Sport, Culture, and Society; Sport, Culture, and Society; Sport, Culture & Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries